Oh the indignity—Oh the SHAME!!.....
The Symbol of American Power--- the profile of the truly wasteful, over-indulgent “ugly American” of a now so quickly bygone era—
Look at the cars that identify, with a single glance the countries of their origin…
VW bug--- the peoples car- Germany
…. Oh, all right! For you WWII apologists- I’ll give you BMW for true German Engineering (and my girlfriends ’76 bmw2002 that I milked along for 12 years, before selling it to a true culinary genius chef who had a buddy who convinced him to buy it and restore it as a hobby!- but that’s another story for a slow week…)
Hyundai- the little car like its little Korean producers
Toyota/Honda -- one look and you see Japanese industriousness and sound business practices invading and conquering America in an ironic historical twist of fate—
Yugo-- Wow, even small, unimportant historically deprived countries have a national automobile identity!
And now—the Chinese Hummer—
nytimes:
General Motors has reached a preliminary agreement for the sale of its Hummer brand of large sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks to a machinery company in western China with ambitions to become a carmaker, a person familiar with the Chinese government approval process said Tuesday.
The Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd., based in Chengdu, concluded the agreement with G.M., said the person, who insisted on anonymity.
Sichuan Tengzhong is a privately owned company, but Tuesday’s deal required preliminary vetting by Beijing officials, who retain the right to veto any effort at an overseas acquisition by a Chinese company and who give special attention to deals over $100 million.
G.M. announced the deal early Tuesday morning in Detroit but said that the memorandum of understanding would not allow it to reveal the buyer or the price. Industry analysts have estimated that the Hummer division would sell for less than $500 million.
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