Comment by slt2021
3 months ago
not true, it is better for the brand long-term to build good cars. but unionized workforce makes it economically unfeasible.
GM makes crappy because, if they tried to make high quality cars, they would be priced like Cadillacs
Wait is the joke that Cadillacs are GM cars?
It's interesting that other car companies have backed off from the multiple brands/badges. We don't have plymouth, Oldsmobile, mercury, Pontiac.
We have an apples to apples comparison with Mexican-made vehicles, though, since both GM and Toyota build there.
What's the excuse for the shoddy non-union Mexican GM vehicles?
Mexico is an assembly operation to arbitrage cheap low skill labor and preferential NAFTA-like agreements.
Vehicle designs, powertrains, critical components are all made by the HQ or its suppliers.
Citation needed, because just a cursory check is showing me plenty of powertrain manufacturing happening in Mexico. Meanwhile if by critical components you mean chips, I don't think there's a big semiconductor manufacturing union that's kneecapping GM. Design is also an apples to apples comparison, it's not a union job.