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  1. Question about MAG

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    I guess no matter how bad it gets it can always get worse.

     

    Best part of getting your Saab worked on at Mag, aside from the complimentary Cappucino Lounge, is you get to meander around all the Maseratis and Ferraris.

     

    I'm sorry - the new Lotus' look like cheap crap.

  3. Question about MAG

    in Passing Lane

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    Yes Eric, MAG will honor all GM programs on their Saabs.

     

    We bought the wife's 9-3 Sport Sedan there in 2003 and got the 0-0-0 deal from GM at the time (zero down, zero interest, zero payments for 3 months).

     

    Buy from MAG - the perks are worth it at warranty visit time.

     

    ...it looks better...
    True, but it still has that butt-ugly hood scoop. Could they pick any uglier of a hood scoop?

  4. Discovery channel joke of a contest

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    Atually - upon further thought, Neil Armstrong should be called the greatest american. But if not - its no big deal. He'll end up being the one remembered the longest.

     

    You know, in ten thousand years people will not remember Bill Gates, or George Bush, or Madonna. Or John Wayne. Or Queen Elizabeth. Or any sports star you ever heard of. Or entertainer. Or General. Or Hitler. Or Ghandi. Or Martin Luther King. Or George Washington. They will have forgotten WWII. WWI. The Cold War. All the wars of the second millenium. Mohamed. They very likely will have forgotten what a United States of America was.

     

    But they will look back from wherever it is they're sitting on in whatever parts of the universe they're calling home at that time, and they'll remember the name of the first of humanity's children to step foot on some body other than their birth planet. Neil Armstrong.

  5. Discovery channel joke of a contest

    in Dumpster

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    Gates as the greatest american is a stretch. But he is a great american. Maybe doesn't deserve to be on that list. But I'll tell you why he's better than the Rockefellers and the Venderbilts and the Carnegies and so on and so on: His product is cheap and benefits more people across demographics than any other. He is also the biggest philanthropist in history. He also is selling one of the last Made-in-the-USA things that the world still buys. Windows. Cus it sure as hell ain't cars or clothes or linux. Or even our culture, for much longer. Windows and wheat. About the only two things getting more money to come into our country than go out.

     

    So why's that make him a great american vs just a great capitalist? Because if you didn't have the barrier to entry that Microsoft's size and very existence creates in the tech space they're in, then our America would find themselves in the software and computing sector in the exact same situation Britain found themselves in at the turn of the century when they manufactured the first all-big-gun battleship: they just unwittingly leveled the playing field.

     

    Neil Armstrong should be on that list. Near the top.

  6. dead man walkin'

    in Dumpster

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    Originally posted by The Stig:

    http://www.everestnews.com/stories2005/pictures/heli.jpg

    Law of averages rocks - they got their crash done for the year.

     

    And 'sides, movie stars don't rent cheap ass Russian leftover helos. You get what you pay for. We'll rent a big good ol Sikorsky with leather seats and a titty bar built in and bring John Travolta along as a spare pilot. And grey poupon for the wheat toast.

     

    BTW - someone tried to tell me that helos can't even fly to the top of Everest, which is complete horseshit. 29,000ft is nothing for modern helos. Well, US and Euro helos... ;)

     

    Who'm I kiddin- I won't be joining the Cruiser on the ride to the top. I'll be too busy nailing Nicole Kidman.

  19. GM dumping 25,000 employees, closing a few plants?

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    hmmm....

     

    But analyst Michael Bruynesteyn of Prudential Equity Group said that eliminating 25,000 or more hourly jobs through 2008 would only be in line with the normal 5% annual retirement or attrition rate at GM.

     

    “These plans are not surprising given market share losses and efficiency gains but we do not think they should be viewed as a new strategy,” added Goldman Sachs analyst Robert Barry.

     

    Wagoner said GM had been in intense discussions with the United Auto Workers union about ways to reduce the company's massive healthcare costs. But he said it was not certain an agreement would be reached.

     

    A senior UAW official suggested Wagoner was unlikely to win any major concessions from the union under its current labour contract, however. The contract expires in September 2007.

     

    “It's one thing to present in a speech specific targets for job reductions and closing plants by the end of 2008; in reality, various important factors will come into play,” Richard Shoemaker, the UAW vice president in charge of union affairs with GM, said in a statement.

    "New strategy"? Or "spin" to bounce out of junkbond status?

  20. GM dumping 25,000 employees, closing a few plants?

    in Dumpster

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    Originally posted by The Stig:

    They The CEO sucks at his job and still brought in $4.66 mil last year, plus 6 figure bonuses. Cut his salary by 75% and his ass still aint starving.

    I'm not a fan of Wagoner, but to be honest $4.6M annual for a CEO with the revenue the size of GM is low. There are CEOs of MUCH smaller companies pulling in more than that. Good CEOs aren't cheap.

     

    That being said, I think Wagoner should get the boot. But I beleive whoever runs GM deserves more than $4.6M actually. I'd say give it to Lutz, but then we'd lose him as the top product guy, but he's just getting started, and he's the first "car guy" GM's had in his post for a LONG time.

     

    Maybe bring in Richard Branson as a new CEO. Now THAT'D rock! Can you imagine what he'd do with GM and a mandate to change it? *drool*

  22. GM dumping 25,000 employees, closing a few plants?

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    Most asian and european companies benefit from the fact that their governments pay for the health benefits.

     

    Even so - I don't want a socialized medical system in the USA.

     

    I just want tort reform. Kill the lawyers. It'll solve so much. Lower medical bills, lower insurance costs, lower costs for cars, homes, booze.......

  24. Removing and reapplying badges

    in Passing Lane

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    I've been told a hairdryer and fishing line or dental floss to get it off. WD40 to clean the tape residue. And then 3M double sided foam tape to reapply. Do you remember what epoxy you got at Autozone?

     

    But I like the Goo Gone idea, I think that may be nice to my paint.

     

    Masking tape or wax pen to mark the location, what do you think?

  25. GM dumping 25,000 employees, closing a few plants?

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    By the way - regards the unions, here's a quote from another forum's thread on the GM topic:

    It's more than that...it's 2200.00 off the line for pension and bene's. GM's unions, according to Fortune, do not pay a dime for insurance.....

     

    I used to work for UPS (Teamsters). While some were concerned and wanted to partner with the company to make it work for all the vast majority (80%) would rather see UPS go out of business then look for solutions. It was crazy....during the strike I had my "friends" shoot at me with a BB gun, knife my tires and break my friends jaw as we were driving across the line....just so you know what your talking about here...One of my friends was killed when they cut him off in his tractor and he tumbled over the ramp....he was 54, family and one year from retiring....nices guy you ever met....

    I'm sure Jimmy Hoffa would agree.
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