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Guess where I have spent my whole career? (hint; look at the picture)
GM, Mack, Firestone, and others like Standard, and National City Lines did actually conspire to control the bus industry. The streetcars were dying anyway. It would have been better if some urban planner had thought to use the streetcar system as a backbone for "smart" growth back in the 50's, instead of what we ended up with....commonly call sprawl.
Planned development where bicycles, cars, pedestrians, and yes even trolleys can interact safely will be the future.
Yes..the GM bus was one of the most reliable and well built buses from 1949 to about 1986; but by then even GM was getting beat at it's own game. I know...I personally owned 5 GM buses. 2 1948's, a 1963, and a 1972 model.
There was an old saying.. "whats good for GM is good for the country" and "as GM goes, so goes the USA"..
And finally.... if GM is so great, find out where Greyhound buys it's buses.... from the 40's to the 70's Greyhound had a majority GM fleet. Then GM wouldn't provide what Greyhound wanted, (sound familiar?) so they went elsewhere.
GM is missing out on market share in the police car segment, the bus segment, and I'm sure you could fill in the blank segment. Until there is real corporate leadership, GM will keep sinking.... Time for us as SAAB owners to read the writing on the wall.
Jim
GM buses all RIP
1948 TDM4509 (2)
1963 PDM4106
1972 T8H5307A
and saabs all RIP
1967 96
1974 99 LE 4d
1991 900S 4d
1993 900S hatch
current
1991 9000T
1992 900T vert
2002 9-5 lpt
2003 9-5 aero
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