General Motors Reacts To Donald Trump’s Presidential Win
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No matter which way the election would have turned out, history was bound to be made. In this case, the United States has elected the first person to never have served public office to the highest office in the land.
General Motors released a statement on behalf of the automaker congratulating him on his victory and stated it hopes to work with President Trump on a stronger U.S. auto industry.
“GM congratulates both candidates and parties on their hard-fought campaigns. GM looks forward to working with President-elect Donald J. Trump and the new Congress on policies that support a strong and competitive U.S. manufacturing base,” the automaker said in a statement.
The automaker added it “will continue to do its part to transform the future of mobility and contribute to America’s competitive strength.”
Trump has been keen on bashing investments in the country of Mexico, which GM has plans to grow significantly in the coming years as Americans buy less small cars, and more large crossovers and SUVs. Casualties of the nonexistent small car love affair are just beginning; GM announced it would lay off an entire shift at the Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant over slumping 2016 Chevrolet Cruze sales.
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Why the picture of flags flying at half-staff?
Is someone trying to voice their displeasure in an understated, sneaky way?
Dan,
If you’re trying to deliver a blow in an understated, sneaky way, know these are our photos we took at the GM Renaissance Center shortly after the San Bernadino attacks, and the only photos we have of the RenCen with the American flags. That is why the flags are at half-staff in the photo.
I’m here to report the news because I love cars. That is all.
Cheers,
-Sean
Do you have any photos of the GM board? or the CEO? Or perhaps the statement itself with GM letterhead. Maybe GM has stock photos of the RenCen? There were many options available to you instead of flags-at-half-mast which were to meant honor the victims of a terrible tragedy. Take this from a person who felt the Bern. The left ain’t gonna defeat Trumpism by allowing apparently neutral websites to give backhanded coquettish insults to the President-elect. That was Hillary’s major problem, and added to Obama’s lack of delivery on left issues lost them the election. The person who deserves backhanded coquettish insults is Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
holy $hit guys its a picture of the ren cen with american flags chill out, he explained why they where at half staff its nothing to get into a political debate over.
Nothing understated or sneaky about my question, and no ‘blows’ intended; I wanted to know if the site is being ‘kept straight’. Thanks for the clarification.
They could have at the very least done some more research in other places and found a more appropriate picture to use.
GMI can’t just go to Google and swipe an image of the RenCenter from there. Someone would own the rights to that photo, and GMI would have to pay for it’s use.
GMI has two options when it comes to using photos on the site:
1) They can pay a licence fee to use an appropriate photo of the RenCenter from some third-party photo warehouse.
2) They can send someone from the staff to downtown Detroit to take a photo on their phone and save the image for re-use in future articles about GM internal operations.
Guess which one they likely went with. 😉
This is not the place for political discussion or opinions. This site is about automobiles.
just remember the govt has as much to do with the design of the present day auto as the car companies. a lot of the stuff on a car that raises the price was mandated by the govt.
News from Lansing, Michigan; the Grand River Assembly Plant is laying off 800 people due to slow sales of its vehicles esp. the Camaro . They also build the Cadillac ATS and CTS .
They are going from 3 shifts to 2 starting in January 2017. However GM is still going to invest in the facility which has already been reported .
Slowing sales of small cars is also an issue , this is something that we knew was coming as JDN is in a hiatus with the current vehicles being produced .
Time to bring some of those foreign built Buicks back home to be built by Americans who need good manufacturing jobs. There are a lot of jobs outside the GM plant that are tied to building a vehicle. I think Trump’s idea of America first is great. It seems a number of GM’s foreign competors built plants in America with American workers successfully
. Good idea to support Americans!
There is only one Buick from China in limited numbers and it will be moved here Trump or not once they get the plant up and running.
As for Trump he may be our best bet to save the auto industry from regulations that are going to strangle it economically with the higher and higher fuel mileage and really no cheaper alternatives to hold them profitable after 2025. Development cost are through the roof now and will only get worse with the higher regulations.
As for the picture it was not anything intended to dis. Just let it go. We have too many overy sensitive millennials in safe zones with their play dough and comfort dogs at Burkeley over the election already.
Autoweek stated today that the XT2 and XT3 are coming and I wonder if the XT3 is a small Alpha based SUV. The XT7 they said may be a long wheel based XT5. Not sure why they skipped 6 or 4?
They did say the 2 was going to be smaller than you expect.
My gut is it may not be any of these but could it be a new Alpha Impala. They have to do something as the present one will die in the next year or so. The platform only supports two cars and is one of the oldest they have. The SS is also dying. It too would volume to the platform and use much of the Camaro drive lines and suspension. It would help the other three cars and it would not need to sell in major volumes to cover the cost.
Chevy has several sizes of SUV models coming already so they will be well covered in 5-6 sizes,