I wanted to be hopeful. I wanted to believe that GM still had some sort of heart, and vision and soul.
Instead this just confirms what we all knew deep down.
GM has become an inward looking, xenophobic, short term thinking, profit whore. It will now exist as an American company. A company so short sighted and spineless that anything that doesn't earn immediate approval and return for shareholders is deemed too hard and punted.
Barra talks about making difficult decisions. And says this is one of them. Wrong Mary. This is the easy one. This is the easy way out.
Difficult is to find ways to make hard situations easy. To find solutions to problems.
RHD isn't ****ing hard. Every other major car company somehow manages to make it work. Using small market size as an excuse only works because you excised every other RHD market in the world because they were too hard too.
Let me give you a tip GM. If you think Silverados and the NA market are enough to warrant a long term survival strategy you are more introspective and more representative of what the rest of the world already thinks of America than I ever gave you credit for. The Trumpism of America First has permeated a once great, inspirational, global leader into an automotive pariah.
Your self flagellation and lack of spine is breathtaking.
As a life long, passionate Holden fan, and an owner of 15 of them, I'm sorry I ever believed that the emotion and passion that the industry stirred would be enough to ever withstand your accountant based bureaucracy. I'm sorry I wasted my time, my dedication and most of all my money on such ignorance.
My Acadia will be sold within months. The Colorado will follow. My heart aches for the dealers, the employees and those who have poured their minds, hearts and souls into this company. What a waste. What an utter utter waste.
