Government Motors dominates the Worst Cars of the Year list
We have much chronicled the ongoing, uber-pathetic Leftist ideological endeavor that is government-owned General Motors.
Where profit matters not – so long as the electric Chevy Volt on which you’re making no coin gets up to 40 miles per 8-hour charge.
And where you think that this is such a good idea, Buick and Cadillac need plug-in cars too.
A fantastical place where you think that – based on all of this – it’s a great idea to lead the nation in green patents in 2010.
And when you’re a car company consumed-to-distraction with leading the nation not in great cars but in green ones, what do you suppose the automotive results will be?
Forbes has released its 2011 Worst Cars on the Road list, and the outcome is not pretty for American manufacturers. With the exception of the 2011 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the 2011 Smart ForTwo and the 2011 Nissan Titan, the cars on the list are all American-made. Worse than that, they all come from two manufacturers: General Motors and Chrysler. Ford managed to avoid the list completely.
Bravo, Government Motors.
(GM) offerings from Chevrolet and Cadillac crowded the picture. The base model 2011 Cadillac Escalade earned spots on the Worst Value, Highest Cost of Ownership and Worst Safety Performance lists. The 2011 Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid hung with the Cadillac for Worst Value and safety, and earned a spot on the Least Reliable roster as well. The Chevrolet Aveo and Chevrolet Colorado rounded out the worst General Motors offerings for 2011.
Bravissimo, Government Motors.
According to Hannah Elliott in Forbes:
GM has some work to do before it can regain a good reputation fleet-wide. Four GM-made vehicles–the Cadillac Escalade, Chevy Tahoe Hybrid, Chevrolet Colorado, and Chevrolet Aveo/Aveo5–are ranked as among the worst on the market today. All but the Tahoe Hybrid qualified for the Worst Cars list last year as well.
So this year GM added a car to their already stockpiled roster of Worst Cars on the Road.
In profit-is-irrelevant, green-is-everything Government Motors Land, that, it would appear, constitutes progress.
Well, my 2011 Chevy Camaro LS has yet to disappoint me and service at the Chevy dealer (Power Chevrolet – Peoria, AZ) for the routine maintenance and some hail damage repair has been outstanding. I had been a Saturn owner for almost 20 years prior, and my most recent – a 2001 SC coupe – has been handed to my stepson who’s having a blast with it. I’d have owned another Saturn were they still in business.
Coming soon to a showroom near you — the all new Cadi-Lada!
I haven’t owned a GM vehicle in many years due to my experiences. I had an ’82 S-10 truck that would stall instead of idle, an ’83 Olds that had improperly machined brake rotors that destroyed tires, and an ’89 GMC full sized truck in which a permanently lubed ball joint gave way leaving me skidding down the road on three wheels. These types of things are what led to GM’s becoming Government Motors. Reliability, from what I read, has become better but they still cannot compete with other brands. In the long run it would have been better for everyone except the UAW to have allowed them to enter bankruptcy without a bailout. If we had wanted to preserve the domestic manufacturing base, we could have considered imposing tariffs on foreign cars like we do on trucks.
That is a bogus list! American Union Made certifies only the highest quality craftsmanship and design performance bumper-to-bumper.
The drivetrains of the big three are pure junk except for Fords trucks.
The big-three did it to themselves over the past many decades by submitting to the destructive socialist labor unions so, I really have NO sympathy for them though, Ford seemingly has put some controls on the unions prior to the economic collaspe.
Government “autos” are legendary: the Trabant from the GDR, prone to splitting in two when pulling a load; the Yugo from Yugo…., made entirely from cardboard, and the Lada from the USSR, made from squashed soda cans. The legends about these “automobiles” bring back memories to their owners, memories of rage, contempt, revulsion and disgust. But what can you expect when a car is designed by bureaucrats who care nothing for consumer demand but everything for union featherbedding? Please see the You Tube “Trabant factory” videos for what a socialist factory looks like; it’s very funny.
actually, lada was made of very heavy metal, and was designed by italians – it’s old model of fiat. the quality was poor even by italian standards, though.
cannot wait what will the new owner of chrysler – fiat – bring to the market. now that should be a riot!