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Originally Posted by Dragoneye
it's hard to make green look attractive on anything, imo.  |
Hey I resent that. Green is my favorite color, and you better believe my 'vert will be green if GM really does offer it as the rumor suggests. I just don't think it looks good for their logo. Maybe I'm so used to the blue logo, but I'm just not feeling this one.
I like taking care of the environment, and I recognize what GM has done, but the term "green" just has an air of pretentiousness to it. To me "Green" means having a Prius - filled with environment-wrecking batteries - shipped over from Japan on a cargo ship spewing pollutants.
And with the dealerships, no doubt some of them were good businesses that are now hurt, but it doesn't change the fact that GM dealers over-saturate the market, leading to cutthroat competition that leaves the dealers ill-equipped to provide good service and pursuing whatever meager profits they can get at any cost. A right-size dealership network allows remaining dealers to be more profitable, reinvest in their service and facilities, pursue sales less aggressively and less deceptively/unfairly, and allows GM to weed out the jerks. The government wants to save jobs in the industry, but they have to realize that it can't be sunshine and puppies for everyone. The industry is oversized, and unless they want to subsidize a huge, wasteful, overstaffed industry, some people need to find new occupations, or else everyone will be dragged to the bottom.