Anyone else holding out for new 2013 Chevy/GMC truck?

[CinderSchnauzer]

When you buy foreign, regardless if it is assembled on American soil, you are shipping America's wealth off-shore in the form of profits.

Perhaps if statements such as this are repeated enough times, people will come to believe it is true.

However................

Profit is not what creates jobs, it is the production and manufacturing process that provides employment. GM will sell in the vicinity of 2 Million vehicles in 2011. Whether the company actually makes a profit - assume for a moment they exactly broke even @ $0.00, there would still be tremendous wealth creation and employment for both the direct and indirect employees and companies involved in the process.

It's not that easy anymore to decide what constitutes a "foreign" company. For example, is the wife's Malibu an American car or a "foreign" car, since it was apparently built in Mexico. I have Toyota and Honda plants within 50 miles of my house. The purchase of a Corolla would have provided more benefit to the local economy than my purchase of a Malibu.

Silverado trucks used to be produced at a nearby plant and I believe it was actually rated #1 for quality. Production was moved to the US and the plant now builds Impala.

So now if I buy a Silverado, based on the logic above - I'd be buying a "foreign" brand.

 

[timswi]

Perhaps if statements such as this are repeated enough times, people will come to believe it is true.

However................

Profit is not what creates jobs, it is the production and manufacturing process that provides employment. GM will sell in the vicinity of 2 Million vehicles in 2011. Whether the company actually makes a profit - assume for a moment they exactly broke even @ $0.00, there would still be tremendous wealth creation and employment for both the direct and indirect employees and companies involved in the process.

It's not that easy anymore to decide what constitutes a "foreign" company. For example, is the wife's Malibu an American car or a "foreign" car, since it was apparently built in Mexico. I have Toyota and Honda plants within 50 miles of my house. The purchase of a Corolla would have provided more benefit to the local economy than my purchase of a Malibu.

Silverado trucks used to be produced at a nearby plant and I believe it was actually rated #1 for quality. Production was moved to the US and the plant now builds Impala.

So now if I buy a Silverado, based on the logic above - I'd be buying a "foreign" brand.

My GMC was built in Ft Wayne...

 

[Diamondpilot]

Most JD stuff is also built overseas under 50 hp.

Chris

 

[kenmac]

I'll admit I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. Has anyone mentioned that bumpers on trucks seem to be a thing of the past ?? A truck with no steel bumpers. I'll have to pass on new trucks, no matter the brand. A truck (to be a truck) has to have good bumpers front & rear !

 

[jeffsw6]

I'd rather have a crappy plastic bumper and huge brakes and a back-up camera than nice metal bumpers and plenty of ways to run them into things!

 

[timswi]

I'll admit I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. Has any mentioned that bumpers on trucks seem to be a thing of the past ?? A truck with no steel bumpers. I'll have to pass on new trucks, no matter the brand. A truck (to be a truck) has to have good bumpers front & rear !

My new GMC has steel bumbers.....Not sure what you're referring to.

You can still mangle a truck even if they have steel bumpers...I've had various trucks from the 50's on and none of the bumpers could handle a hard impact anyway..there was always collateral damage. Fortunately, these ocurrances have been rare for me...I used to fix them though.

 

[davo727]

Im glad my old trucks down here dont rust

That way I dont have to make a truck payment that looks like a mortgage payment.

For me I decided I would have to be making 150k a year to justify blowing- (wasting) the kind of money that a new 3/4 or 1 ton 4x4 costs. So old stuff for me.

 

[timswi]

Im glad my old trucks down here dont rust

That way I dont have to make a truck payment that looks like a mortgage payment.

For me I decided I would have to be making 150k a year to justify blowing- (wasting) the kind of money that a new 3/4 or 1 ton 4x4 costs. So old stuff for me.

You're correct on the payment...If I wouldn't have put a ton down on mine it would have been much higher than my mortgage payment....It's painful out there.

 

[kenmac]

My new GMC has steel bumbers.....Not sure what you're referring to.

The truck in the pic. Most newer trucks don't have the bumpers some of the older trucks had.

Sure you can mangle a steel bumper if you hit something hard enough. Doesn't take much to mangle the rubber bumpers. Given a choice I'll take a steel bumper over the rubber any day.

 

[Topkicker]

After reading this thread and seeing the same old darts being thrown around at America workers and American car companies I just want to say this.

When you speak of GM for example, you are really talking about a handful of executives, a board of directors, and Wall Street.

The designers, engineers, suppliers and assembly workers are just Americans, your neighbors. Give it a rest.

When you buy foreign, regardless if it is assembled on American soil, you are shipping America's wealth off-shore in the form of profits.

Buy American, support America, go watch the History channel's "Story of Us", several times.

Very well said. Thank you.:thumbsup: