It was the colour of money…
People briefed on its plans say [General Motors] is looking into changing the background color of its corporate logo from blue to green in an effort to show consumers that it is leaner and greener, more focused on fuel efficiency and better able to make quick decisions.
Green is also the color of many molds and a particularly nasty foot fungus prevalent in tropical jungles.
Probably foreshadowing for “The New GM” and its Obama Czar directed future.
No doubt bowing to political interference/control.
Makes me feel green, myself. Now where’d I put my barf bucket… just in case?
That’s it, a new logo and a new colour is all it’s going to take to turn this white elephant around. I’m waiting for the introduction of the new Chevy ‘Acorn’. Perhaps Oprah will give them away to her studio audience along with a copy of The Audacity of Hope and a CD of Michael Jacksons greatest hits.
This trainwreck of the Obama preidency writes itself.
I wear green on Saint Patrick’s Day because I care about the environment. Really.
I notice in the green party of Canada propaganda this notion that only “green” thinking is forward thinking and the rest is somehow unsustainable and backwards.
Yeah, that’ll go a long way towards solving their problems.
/sarc off
And I wear glasses because it makes me look smarter. Really.
Government Motors and Congressional Automobiles. I will never buy one of these vehicles again. It will be a Ford; unless Jeep is released from Congressional control.
Any color you want so long as it’s black.
So said Henry, a long time ago.
I am going to buy exactly ONE GM product …. it’ll be a used C6 and that will be all the tools ever see of me.
It will be serviced either in my own garage or a private shop and never ever receive any OEM parts.
Hey Dummies it is not the logo, its the product,fair price,reliable vehicle done deal. Screw me,screw you!
uuuuhuh.
electric cars and all that:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/
included are some unique photos of the desert.
The logo will be green because that’s the colour your face is going to be after half an hour riding in your new O-Mobile from Government Motors!
It will be tiny like an Austin Mini but without the coolness thereof. And it will have a three cylinder Japanese motorcycle engine. Not the cool vroom vroom kind, the wheezy [kaff kaff chhhhhhhhugggg] kind. Because performance is eeeevile.
Think unclean offspring of a Smart Car raped by a Chevette. Body styling by Nancy Pelosi and Bawny Fwank. Painted green.
OMG i’m gonna hurl…
http://freethemarketman.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/ron-paul-on-gm-amtrak-and-an-increasingly-fascist-america/
Ron Paul on GM, Amtrak and an Increasingly Fascist America
The promise that this is temporary and will eventually be profitable is supposed to ease the American people into accepting this arrangement, but it is of little comfort to those who remember similar promises when the American taxpayers bought Amtrak. After three years, government was supposed to be out of the passenger rail business. 40 years and billions of dollars later, the government is still operating Amtrak at a loss, despite the fact that they have created a monopoly by making it illegal to compete with Amtrak. Imagine what they can now do to what is left of the great American auto industry!
Hey OMMAG funny you should mention that, I recently bought a used 96 GMC Sierra (private sale) bought the parts required for the insurance inspection from NAPA and installed them myself, and it’s the 1st and probably last GM vehicle I’ve bought- I owned a Jeep commanche and then a YJ. now I plan to drive this big powerful truck into the ground before I even think about buying another vehicle.
OMMAG:
Is this the “used C6” you have in mind?
http://ca.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Kjqmmm9FtKVC4AZu4XFwx.;_ylu=X3oDMTExN2szY25nBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA3NwMQR2dGlkAwRsA1dTMQ–/SIG=12ijnqj0d/EXP=1247626790/**http%3A//royalmontrealregiment.com/combat-zone/weapons/c6—gpmg
You know, this classic Iowahawk bit was supposed to be satire, not foreshadowing the company’s actual demise.
mhb23re
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As part owner of GM, I approve the new colour.
So GM figured out that small cars are not profitable long before becoming politicized. They switch their focus from making small crappy cars that didn’t make money, to large crappy cars & trucks that were profitable.
Enter government agenda, and they decide to make small unprofitable cars. Wow. If fuel efficiency is so important to consumers, how about making mid range vehicles that are also fuel efficient?? (and thereby removing your company from entering the ‘race to the bottom’ with China and India)??
Perhaps they didn’t want to follow Ford’s business model (who now makes an award winning full-size pickup that is also the best in the fuel economy class). Who cares that Ford didn’t need a bailout and didn’t go bankrupt… why look to them for anything. Or perhaps this is an illustration of what happens when political masters run companies with a larger interest in re-election rather than benefiting their shareholders (ie, retirement funds) and employees (ie, unions).
Ford isn’t playing the game, Bull. How ya gonna peel money off a company to give to your friends if it won’t play along?
Phantom prophesy: Ford is the only American car company left in five years. Unless Owe-bama stages a coup, of course. Then all bets are off.
The only thing I want to see is the new CTS Sport Wagon. That ride has my name written all over it.
a new logo and a new colour is all it’s going to take to turn this white elephant
What’s that? NUKE THE ELEPHANTS!
I hope these clowns are unable to ruin Ford, too. I thought about buying a Fusion a while back because Consumer Reports says it is as reliable as a Camry or Accord. The Focus is also a well-thought of little car. I finally bought a Mazda3, though, which I love. It is a “cousin” of the Fords.