I love a double suicide. It’s so Romeo and Juliet.

One goes down, take the other one with it?

I’d say go for it but Bill would never allow it.

Why does GM need Ford? GM seems to be somewhat of a roll these days, while Ford can’t even get their so-so rated Edge out the door on time!

The only problem with this merge is that half of the employees will be fired. And the remaining employees will be forever fighting over whether Ford’s or GM’s standards should be used.

Ford delays the Edge for 2 weeks and gets flack, while Toyota delays the Corolla an entire year and you don’t hear anything bad said. People seem to forget that nice little car called the Fusion that’s beating up the Japanese in the quality ratings. You think Ford may be aiming to do that with the Edge? 2 weeks is worth the wait.

terrible, terrible idea. american still better than the japs. just need to get rid if the public perception, and ford is a ways behind GM.

I don’t see how this merger would either one, unless downsizing of the american auto industry is the long-term goal.

Ford are better suited to do an alliance with Daimlerchrysler and let GM rot

Alliance, guys, not merger. They already worked together on the new 6-speed, why not do it with engines? Obviously the government isn’t helping them fight imports, so maybe they’ll have to do it themselves, together.

The government isn’t helping them because the government doesn’t know how to build a good car. And that’s what it’s about… cars, not business. Build better cars and people will buy them. The American companies are slowly figuring that out.

whatever it takes to win. Once back on top they can start competing with each other again. We want America to change more jobs here they we better start buying American. If you think about it if we never bought anything that was being made outside of the usa. It wouldnt have been cost effective. They would have lost money. Now we wont pay to keep jobs here. THen we have stores like WalMart killing off the little guy putting bussines out, unless they produce outside of the usa were it has cheeper labor cost. Its really are own dame falt. If they can get ther act togather I will start to buy American Again.

Merger? What so GM can bring import cars and badge them as fords. Give me a break. Dodge and Ford are the only two not looking like those ugly import cars. Look what GM did to the GTO.

Bad idea…

the american companies put all of their eggs in one huge, gas-guzzling, plastic, “offroading”, piece of ****, basket.

mujician: you (and others on here) are so clueless. you probably think the president sets gas prices too. you clearly have no idea how business nor government works so you are little qualified to speak about either. of course it’s within your rights to do so but do you have any clue how uneducated you sound? outside of the anti-american hate speech that you’ve religiously agreed to preach, you offer little more than unbridled emotion. i recommend a little less cindy shehan/michael moore and a little more independent fact finding.
i wonder how many people on here believe the government is responsible for or should be responsible for building cars? can you say communist?

This would probably make the car industry in the US even worse. If they joined up, i bet there will be so many similarities between so many cars. just like the Lincoln, Mercury and Ford do right now. I don’t see any point in this anyway why would you join together 2 big troubled car giants and make the problem even harder to handle. Maybe im completely wrong but thats how i see it.

Thank you all for your comments, I was wondering if anyone was going to recognize the spelling, glad their is someone inteligent enough to point that out. As far as gas prices go. No, I don’t think the president sets them, you must think I am as retarded as you are. I was just pointing out a fact that no-one else notices. I’m just asking for a little common sense out of facts. LOOK THEM UP, at any public liberary. Then ask yourself. Would any of this happen if someone else were in office. deantj, did make a good point about greed and the american public.

mujician – because you figured out how to use a spell checker makes you neither intelligent nor well informed. even though this has nothing to do with this article… (sorry to everyone else having to read or scroll past this and I will end after this)… do you really think the war ‘started’ when bush took office? using words like retard to describe me does not change the fact that i’ve done research too (not on moveon.propoganda either).were we in iraq when the planes hit in 2001? how about when the uss cole was bombed? during the first world trade center attack? etc, etc? NO we were not. radicals declared war on us long ago. what does us being in iraq have to do with the anti-american hate that’s been OPENLY brewing in the middle east for decades? you blame it on america (and unwittingly the democracy that lets you speak out like this), i blame it on communist thinking (e.g. welfare is an entitlement and ‘the government sent jobs over seas’) and a religion that does nothing to purge itself of those who SLAUGHTER in their namesake. i blame it on the american ’sheep’ that don’t want to see outside of their own comfort bubble and recognize that america is the land of the free because of generations of SACRIFICE. not because of lazy hippy-offspring that don’t understand the consequences of not dealing with a people that praise the sawing-off of a living man’s head for ‘god’. or that send out bomb-laden women and children to cause massive carnage in the midst of a bunch of innocents. how your conscience can over look these FACTS i don’t know. now go visit cindysheehan.org to know what to make of all this.
fyi, you still have many errors in your last post, can you find them?

Ignorance is bliss, with or without the spelling errors.