What's really sad about that ad is that American cars weren't the pieces of shit they are today. My mother's two-tone 1955 Oldsmobile with the white sidewalls and red interior ran forever, as did our old 1962 Chevy station wagon. My father was a GM-trained mechanic who worked at a Cadillac dealership, and he says he began noticing the difference back in the early 70s when we were hit with the gas shortage in California. It should have been the signal to GM executives to start designing more fuel efficient, European style cars, but instead they made them bigger and uglier because they thought that was what the American public expected of an American car. If they had bothered to leave their executive suites in the suburbs of Detroit, however, they might have noticed everyone in California was driving Volkswagen Beetles and the very early Toyota Corollas.
Dad keeps mumbling about how the "big shots at GM have their heads up their asses," but I think it breaks his heart to see the junk that passes for an American vehicle today. When he bought a Nissan Quest minivan to replace his ancient Oldsmobile Cutlass, I thought the world was going to end.
heh... good one... another case of the survival-of-the-fattest. Too big, too fat to fall... dang-if-you-bail, dang-if-you-don't situation for the American gah-vern-ment :P
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Dad keeps mumbling about how the "big shots at GM have their heads up their asses," but I think it breaks his heart to see the junk that passes for an American vehicle today. When he bought a Nissan Quest minivan to replace his ancient Oldsmobile Cutlass, I thought the world was going to end.
Kirk should start making T-shirts that say: "Where's my friggin' bailout?!"