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Scott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

I found this CNN article that says Chevy has formally ended sedan production:

"With the Malibu’s demise, General Motors’ mainstream Chevrolet brand will sell only trucks, SUVs, and the Corvette, a two-seat sports car, in the United States."

cnn.com/2024/05/09/business/ch

My personal vehicle the last 25+ years has been a sedan, and now, the US automakers don't make them anymore. I didn't abandon US carmakers. They abandoned me.

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CNN · The Chevy Malibu, the brand’s last sedan, will end productionBy Peter Valdes-Dapena
#ScottCars#USAutomakers#Chevrolet
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Scott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

US automakers have essentially stopped making "cars" in favor of pickups and SUVs. Ford formally this in 2018, excepting the Mustang. From what I've seen, GM Has done the same thing, excepting the Corvette.

My nearest Chevrolet dealer has the following new inventory:
161 Trucks (mostly pickups, but also ~15 commercial trucks)
113 SUVs
3 Vans
5 Coupes (all Corvettes)

They have zero sedans.

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#ScottCars#USAutomakers#Chevrolet
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Becksy

@byteseu just stop importing American cars! Slap tariffs on them. Buy more British and European and Asian instead of Ford, Tesla and Vauxhall GM. Let Americans drive American cars. We’ll drive everything else. Trump is just doing Brexit on a bigger scale. Look what Brexit did for the UK. The US economy will tank as a result. Just like Britain is today. #usa #trump #tariffs #uk #EU #Ford #tesla #swasticar #vauxhall #generalmotors

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Becksy

@byteseu just stop importing American cars! Slap tariffs on them. Buy more British and European and Asian instead of Ford, Tesla and Vauxhall GM. Let Americans drive American cars. We’ll drive everything else. Trump is just doing Brexit on a bigger scale. Look what Brexit did for the UK. The US economy will tank as a result. Just like Britain is today. #usa #trump #tariffs #uk #EU #Ford #tesla #swasticar #vauxhall #generalmotors

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Nonilex

#Mexico is the largest exporter of #automotive parts to the #US. #Honda, for instance, produces around 200k vehicles in Mexico, & ships about 160k of those to the US. American carmakers like #GeneralMotors & #Ford Motor, which have major plants in Mexico & #Canada, would be similarly affected by #Trump’s #tariffs.

…Mexico is also home to other major manufacturers that make #aerospace equipment, #electronics, home #appliances & more. It is the largest exporter of #MedicalDevices to the US.

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OCTADE
"The best way to ensure that would be through a comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation with strong data minimization rules and requirements for clear, opt-in consent. "
No.

The best way is NOT 'opt-in' for 'consent'.

The best way is to just make it a felony to gather telemetry data, period.

A machine manufacturer has ZERO business gathering telemetry, or even having the technical ability to gather telemetry, on its customer use of machines, unless the use of telemetry is integral to the customer performing a task (like GPS-guided tractor plowing).

EFF is proposing a softball solution that will not stop abuse. A 'regulatory violation' doesn't stop the rich. FELONY CHARGES do stop them.

This mental virus of wanting to track everyone is a sign of gross criminality and control freak neurosis. The right thing to do is to pass a federal law just making telemetry gathering and marketing a felony, with no opt-in process, and prohibit tracking devices from existing in the cars in the first place. Nobody needs to know your GPS history to diagnose your engine and drive train.

"But what about onstar?"

Do you really think they invented OnStar and similar systems for YOUR benefit?

#Privacy #Tracking #Telemetry #OnStar #EFF #GM #GeneralMotors #Insurance #FTC
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History January 15, 1946: 260,000 U.S. electrical workers struck against General Electric, Westinghouse and General Motors. It was part of the Great Strike Wave of 1946, the largest in U.S. history. In that wave, 43,000 oil workers struck in October, 1945; 225,000 autoworkers in November, 1945; 93,000 meatpackers in January, 1946; 750,000 steel workers, in January 1946; 340,000 coal miners, in April, 1946; and 250,000 railroad workers in May 1946. There were also General Strikes in Lancaster, PA; Stamford, CT; Rochester, NY; and Oakland, CA.

On the first day of the Oakland General Strike, crowds gather in the streets, blocking traffic in downtown. By Unknown - Oakland Museum of Californiahttp://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Oakland_1946_General_Strikehttp://vm133.lib.berkeley.edu:8080/xtf/search?rmode=irle4&metacollection=irle4&sort=localuid&startDoc=21, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61220975
#workingclass#LaborHistory#strikewave
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History December 30, 1936: Auto workers began their historic sit-down strike at the GM Fisher plant in Flint, Michigan. The protest effectively changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from a collection of small local unions into a major national labor union. It also led to the unionization of the domestic automobile industry. By occupying the plant, they prevented management from bringing in scabs and keeping the plant running and making money. Furthermore, by occupying the plant, they weren’t forced to picked outside in the snow. On January 11, police armed with guns and tear gas tried to storm the plant. Strikers repeatedly repelled them by throwing hinges, bottles and bolts at them. Fourteen strikers were injured by police gunfire during the strike. In February, GM got an injunction against the union by Judge Edward Black, who owned over three thousand shares of GM. The strikers ignored the injunction. And when the UAW found out about the conflict of interests, they got the judge disbarred. The strike ended after 44 days with GM recognizing the union and giving its workers a 5% raise. Filmmaker Michael Moore’s uncle participated in the strike. The first documented sit-down strike in the U.S. occurred when the IWW engaged in a sit-down strike against General Electric, in Schenectady, NY, in 1909.

National Guardsmen with machine guns overlooking Chevrolet factories number nine and number four, during the Flint Sit Down Strike. By Sheldon Dick - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID fsa.8c28665.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2283936
#workingclass#LaborHistory#uaw
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David Wilkins

We now move forward to 1930, and the Vauxhall T-Type, in this case with a Melton golfer’s coupé body from the Grosvenor Carriage Company. By now, Vauxhalls had featured fluted bonnets for a quarter of a century, and the T-Type, like the Prince Henry, was quite an expensive high-end sporty job. But Vauxhall had been acquired in 1925 by General Motors, which would soon bring a significant change of direction. Snapped: British Motor Museum

Dark blue 1930, Vauxhall T-Type with Melton golfer’s coupé body, front quarter view
Dark blue 1930, Vauxhall T-Type with Melton golfer’s coupé body, closer view of fluted bonnet
#davidsdailycar#Vauxhall#GeneralMotors
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