Where is my special loan? Where are the loans to the thousands of truckers who went belly up due to high gas prices for example? Or any other small business owner who is getting F’ed right now?

They can take there special loans and shove them up there butt. Especially when dipsh#ts like wagoner and lutz continue to take there huge salaries and bonuses. I was a GM man, but a person can only take so much crap. I am tired of waiting years for product, I am tired of the low resale values, I am tired of everything new and decent being 30 grand or higher. I refuse to pay 45 grand for a volt – 15 grand worth of car for 45? Yeah, what a deal. Cruz in 2010. Beat in 2011. Boeing can design a new aircraft faster than that!

Honda, kia, mercedes, toyota ALL build cars in this country sucessfully. They ALL build cars and trucks that are relevant to today’s market. Why is it they were smart enough and GM, ford and chysler were too stupid to see the trends? Since the 1970s japan has been building fuel efficient cars and detroit has refused to! They insisted on building SUVs and pickups because there was 15 grand worth of profit in each one. The amazing thing is half of you reading this own one of these pickup trucks and paid 45 grand for it! Stttaaaauuuuupppid. Put a dvd player in a truck and sell it for 45k? It was brilliant! Ha! I still can’t believe they pulled it off.

My next car will be a honda built in america. At least the damn thing will get great gas mileage, be put together well, and last forever. Plus I might get more than $500 for it at trade in time. I have had it!

Detroit – too little too late. R.I.P.

I think LLN meant” Since $4 gas hit the US.”

The loans should not extend 2 4n automakers.

I’m agin this, but asa reqwuitrementm I would say they have 2 nhget rid of the poor leaders.

I need a government bailout so I cab buyb the Broncos!

If they want 2 encourage fuel, economy, offer a tacx credit 2 everyone who buys an Aveo. If they want to stimulate the real economy, make a requitement that the car has 2 B built in the USA 2 qualify 4 the cretdit.

I am a genius!

Making higher quality, desirable cars would easily bail out the domestic automakers .. Chrysler needs it

dukes of hazzard is gr8 stuff.

slurs do us no good. That’s Y idiotes R trying 2 pread lies agin the Obamster, but his time has cum!
The slur “hounky” came as an insult 2 bohemians. Plural has the ‘ies.’

I also am not 4 supporting deadbeat executives who milk the system to the nth degree.

The Malibu is excellent, the new Camry is pure crud.

CR is stoupid.

GM and Ford DO build quality cars!!. but takes awhile to win public perception back from when they really did build garbage.

This is not a free-market economy.

“Car companies produce what we want to buy… but at the same time we buy only what the car companies produce.” What came first, the chikn or the egg?
The rooster!

Honkies is the plural form of honkey, you dumb hick!

They built PLENTY of them! But when gas was cheap, NO ONE BOUGHT THEM. So they canned ‘em and built more of what people were buying…pickups and SUVs.

And read the damn article, everyone! These loans don’t go to pay raises…they go to producing cars with 25% better economy than the competition.

And MY GOD, you people keep beating the old “not a high enough quality car/not desirable enough” drum. The Malibu has been excellent out of the gate! Not even Toyota got the new Camry right in its launch year (2007), which is why the V6 got taken off of CR’s recommended list. GM and Ford DO build quality cars. But fewer people are BUYING them because it takes awhile to win public perception back from when they really did build garbage. You guys are enthusiasts, though. I’d expect a more circumspect assessment from you guys, versus uneducated common buyers.

It only makes sense that if they’re going to increase fuel economy standards AND vehicle safety standards as much as they are (and the weight added from the latter penalizes the former) in the mid-term, they give relief to the manufacturers in another way. This ISN’T a free-market economy. Our government is creating synthetic factors, which are hampering the auto industry. If they insist on doing this, it’s only fair they help the automakers get there.

And, once again, if you READ THE ARTICLE, you’d notice that these loans are available to FOREIGN OEMs THAT BUILD HERE, TOO.