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Why? Because they either owned or know someone who owned a domestic product in the past Or rented. Seems like almost every car I rent is a GM, and I always no

by wensing 18y ago

Why? Because they either owned or know someone who owned a domestic product in the past Or rented. Seems like almost every car I rent is a GM, and I always notice something flaky or broken about it (which is sad considering they rarely have more than 20,000 miles or so). I own a Toyota, but ended up driving someone else's Chevy for a while this weekend. I couldn't believe how cheap all of the components felt, not to mention how much my body ached after driving it for 2.5 hours.

mynameishere 18y ago
You "couldn't believe" how cheap the components on a Chevy were? LOL. GM has been shite for many years. Even to this day the old lemon laws hover over them. Ford is the best of the bunch and I wish them well...
potatolicious 18y ago
That's always been GM's problem. They have perfectly fine designs, but have always been built shoddy. They build a reliable car, and then sabotage it by stuffing it full of ill-fitting plastic interior parts. Every GM car I've been in recently has felt cheap. You know, interior materials don't cost that much - however much they are saving on this construction is nothing compared to how bad it makes them look. I know many people who work in the automotives field, and the general consensus is that GM uses the worst production methodology out of them all. Parts have high tolerances (i.e. shaky, loose, poor fitting) and that leads to shoddy assembly, which weakens reliability of an otherwise sound design, and generally just feels like junk. If GM tightened their manufacturing tolerances they would do wonders for themselves.
- mrtron 18y ago
  I agree with your summary - but why have they even survived this long with such shoddy workmanship? GM's have been poorly built for at least 10 years. Same with Ford. My father owned an auto repair shop, and there seemed to be a big gap in quality between the old vehicles and the new starting in the early 80s. The old cars were tanks - built simply and reliably. The new cars much cheaper and poorly constructed, focusing on form over function. Back then Toyotas and Hondas seemed to be in their own class. The same old reliability, but built cheaper. They were ugly and didn't have many bells and whistles, but they ran forever. Since then the quality gap has remained, but Toyota/Honda have also overtaken the rest in style too.

by wensing 18y ago

mynameishere 18y ago

You "couldn't believe" how cheap the components on a Chevy were? LOL. GM has been shite for many years. Even to this day the old lemon laws hover over them. Ford is the best of the bunch and I wish them well...

potatolicious 18y ago

That's always been GM's problem. They have perfectly fine designs, but have always been built shoddy. They build a reliable car, and then sabotage it by stuffing it full of ill-fitting plastic interior parts. Every GM car I've been in recently has felt cheap. You know, interior materials don't cost that much - however much they are saving on this construction is nothing compared to how bad it makes them look. I know many people who work in the automotives field, and the general consensus is that GM uses the worst production methodology out of them all. Parts have high tolerances (i.e. shaky, loose, poor fitting) and that leads to shoddy assembly, which weakens reliability of an otherwise sound design, and generally just feels like junk. If GM tightened their manufacturing tolerances they would do wonders for themselves.

mrtron 18y ago
I agree with your summary - but why have they even survived this long with such shoddy workmanship? GM's have been poorly built for at least 10 years. Same with Ford. My father owned an auto repair shop, and there seemed to be a big gap in quality between the old vehicles and the new starting in the early 80s. The old cars were tanks - built simply and reliably. The new cars much cheaper and poorly constructed, focusing on form over function. Back then Toyotas and Hondas seemed to be in their own class. The same old reliability, but built cheaper. They were ugly and didn't have many bells and whistles, but they ran forever. Since then the quality gap has remained, but Toyota/Honda have also overtaken the rest in style too.