Comments on: GM doesn’t know what to build at NUMMI

By: Vinnie Bacon

Vinnie Bacon — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:29:19 +0000

This is scary. Let’s hope that Toyota decides to keep the whole plant going.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aIiRyKvlKoT8

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:24:04 +0000

GM ending joint venture with Toyota

NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors Corp. says it is ending its joint venture with Toyota at a Fremont, Calif., manufacturing plant after the two automakers failed to reach an agreement on a new product there.

By: Fremont Res.

Fremont Res. — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:11:00 +0000

Doug, you’re absolutely right. Unless you’re very familiar with the author or they go out of their way to hit you over the head, it’s pretty hard to detect sarcasm in these small posts.

Anyways, only Fremont Guy can clarify, but I think he was being sarcastic.

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:01:36 +0000

FR – maybe FL was poking fun. I’m all for a bit o’ scarcasm tossed in. That’s the inherent problem with the comments we all post. Sometimes the way we phrase them seems right in our mind, but read entirely different.

By: Fremont Res.

Fremont Res. — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:06:22 +0000

Did NUMMI ever fulfill its purpose for GM: to learn the Japanese method of manufacturing? I don’t think so.

I hope they find something, but unless NUMMI offers something special, I don’t see what makes it more appealing than GM’s innumerable other excess factories.

And Doug, unless my sarcasm meter is shot, I think FremontGuy was poking fun at the political fads that have gripped the area’s politicians lately. If I’m wrong, I guess I’m the one with egg on my face.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:29:12 +0000

For our younger bloggers here is a link providing perspective on GM’s involvement in the electric rail lines dismantling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Streetcar_Scandal

In short, they weren’t the only corporation involved and they were acquitted in court of conspiracy charges.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:06:45 +0000

FGuy – I like your thinking, but remember GM is the company that bought out the electric rail lines in CA and eliminated the competition for their autos. Although wouldn’t that be a complete about face for their remaking as a company?!

By: FremontGuy

FremontGuy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:41:43 +0000

How about an electric vehicle! Or an electric rail system that can be then installed down Mowry and Fremont Blvd!

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:04:43 +0000

Well, it won’t be GM’s new small car.

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=6886360

$100 million in property tax incentives always helps.