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It's Christmas morning in "Whoville"... Posted by MattWiltse [Email]  (#263) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from MattWiltse) on Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:05:33
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"I must stop this whole thing! Why, for fifty-three years [actually, it's 60 years, GM] I've put up with it now. I must stop Christmas from coming... but how?" -The Grinch, "How The Grinch Stole Chrismas!", 1966
GM's ability to ruin any marketable concept with which it comes in contact is just astounding. The consistent pattern has been to begin with an innovative idea (we could begin this story with SAAB, but that is self centered, incorrect, and really fails to appreciate the scope of the lack of vision from General Motor's leadership throughout the ages, although the current crop are truly remarkable in their lack of vision. They may in fact be the stupidest men running any company in America). Throughout the world, GM has rendered useless some 20 brands, and sold off another 5 at fire sale prices.
The following names come to mind (in no particular order), and I am certain others abound:
SOLD OFF
Detroit Diesel
Hummer (How to go from premium brand to executioner's block in 15 quick years)
Suzuki
Lotus
Frigidaire
Isuzu ("Oh, we'll let the brand grow through 'word-of-mouth'". You morons!)
RUINED
Saturn (A C+ car, from an A- concept, led by D+ management)
Pontiac (Performance & value together! How could GM destroy this? Became Chevys with lots of spoilers. What a joke.)
Oldsmobile
La Salle
SAAB
Geo
Bedford (Legendary British truck maker)
Marquette
Viking
Oakland
Yellow Coach
Scripps-Booth
Rapid
Reliance
Samson
Asuna
Passport
Acadia
Beaumont
McGlaughlin
Elmore
FAILED PARTNERSHIPS
Subaru
Fiat
Toyota
The brain donors that run this awful organization have spent vast sums to create public enthusiasm for each of these makes, then killed each one off, creating a groundswell of ill-will in circles of car aficionados. Like a promising relationship gone very bad, conversations with those who bought into the dream are laced with bitter contempt, mistrust, and hatred for the subhuman corporate automaton that coldly toyed with their hearts.
"They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming! They're just waking up, I know just what they'll do. Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry, "Boo Hoo." -The Grinch
General Motors has continued to build sub-par vehicles without apology for over 25 years now. Oh, wait, they have apologized. REPEATEDLY. How many times have they introduced another revolutionary concept, seen it sell well initially, looted the concept for profits, while introducing the successor as a re-badged version of the traditional garbage that they were selling in the first place.
Much like trying to help and believe a loved one with an active drug or alcohol addiction, every time you start thinking that "maybe he's really telling me the truth this time", it's the same ol' same ol'. They are just saying what they need to say to get through another day, the only way they know how. And just like that addict you love, DON'T GIVE THEM A DIME.
GM is a horrible company, led by horrible people that have built horrible cars for many years. The good ideas are bled of their life juices, then left for dead. Trust nothing GM says.
"Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas - the whole Christmas season. Now, please don't ask why; no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. Or it could be that his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all may have been that his heart was two sizes too small." -Another quote from "The Grinch who Stole Christmas"
It's obvious by now that GM has no heart at all. Poor, poor Cindy Lou Who. Boo hoo!
IMHO.
Matt
'88 c900 'vert auto 119k "Taz"
THE GRINCH'S SONG
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
You really are a heel,
You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch,
You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel!
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch,
Your heart's an empty hole,
Your brain is full of spiders, you have garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch,
I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch,
You have termites in your smile,
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch,
Given a choice between the two of you I'd take the seasick crocodile!
You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch,
You're the king of sinful sots,
Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch,
You're a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce!
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch,
With a nauseous super "naus"!,
You're a crooked dirty jockey and you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. Grinch,
Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful
Assortment of rubbish imaginable mangled up in tangled up knots!
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch,
You're a nasty wasty skunk,
Your heart is full of unwashed socks, your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch,
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote,
"Stink, stank, stunk"!
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