It is a pity that what is probably the busiest the Executive Suite over at General Motors has been in the last twenty years is during its current preparation for a bankruptcy filing. And as tempting as it is to regard a filing for bankruptcy protection by the automaker as something of a triumph of rationality, it is, in fact, the reverse. It should be quite difficult not to be beyond pissed off at the billions of cash, taxpayer cash, that has been burned over the last many months, all for the sake of the PR gloss of calling the currency whirlpool a “going concern.” This also bodes rather poorly for the many financial institutions that would seem to be in similar condition, though perhaps with slightly less advanced pathology.
Of course, the news could be little more than the latest bit of leaked brinkmanship, but we think that ship has sailed.
General Motors Corp is in “intense” and “earnest” preparations for a possible bankruptcy filing, a source familiar with the company’s plans told Reuters on Tuesday.
A plan to split the company into a new company made up of the most successful units, and an ‘old company’ of its less-profitable units is gaining momentum and is seen as the company’s best configuration for the future, said another source familiar with the talks.
Don’t worry. Nothing is fucked. We are beyond certain that the current plan to mass produce wheelchairs with windscreens (note the wheelie wheels on the back!) in partnership with Segway (free colostomy bag with every purchase!) will pull the chestnuts out.
GM in “intense” bankruptcy preparations: source [Reuters]
What, exactly, are the successful units??
http://www.southparkstuff.com/images/stories/epiimgs/epi511/image_07.gif
ever see that commercial with Howie making fun of Honda cause they make lawnmowers. Now i dont care who you are, dat der’s funny right there!
-@1 – The Unions.
Reading the GM-Segway story, and seeing the picture, is anyone surprised that GM is going BK (yes I know they are not going to BK solely because of this idea)? Also, can you imagine what would happen if you were driving that thing and got hit by a regular passenger car?
Someone please tell me what is wrong with a car company (or any company for that matter) going bankrupt and going away? Anyone remember Nash, DeSoto, Studebaker?
Why does anyone in their right mind think that partnering with Segway or GM is a good idea. They deserve each other.
GM bankruptcy preparations in full swing. What’s good for GM is good for America.
ho ho ho, you see my chidlren, i’m going to levy a $12,500-$18,500 tax per big car to combat global warming, so perhaps you should consider my sport power-wheel-chair?
We aren’t banning big cars…we’re free market people. But yeah, we’re going to slightly twist your arm.
Thanks,
Big Bro
@1
Caddy, maybe Holden, Opel also
Show me your Tatas!!
If it has tits or tires on it, it’s going to cause you trouble.
Phil LeBeau needs to get off GM’s dick.
tell you what when Obama starts making rides around DC in this thing then I will think about buying…..wait on second thought no way
@5 – Why is GM going to Burger King? Isn’t White Castle a better deal?
But looking at the PUMA- I can’t help but remember a comic from MAD Magazine in the 1960′s which forecast exactly this type of contraption being used by most Americans (whom they showed as universally obese), and then concluding that it would make the US “pushovers for the lean and hungry east”, with decidedly racist caricatures of Red Chinese invading. That’s what I call prescience.
I think this is a subversive move to scare middle Americans into supporting a larger bailout.
The message is: Give us $25billion, or the gubmin’t is going to confiscate your SUV and force you to ride this rickshaw to work like a third-world peasant. No AC, no heat, only a thin plastic skin separating you and your kid from an oncoming delivery truck.
Crafty, GM, very crafty.
If GM put their name on that they need to die.
My insurance policies have suicide exemptions. Would the insurance co. be able to not pay out if I got killed in a puma?
@3 Honda does make lawn mowers. Maybe the reasons behind their success is because they consider themselves an engine company that happens to make automobiles and motorcycles. They also have a jet aircraft…
http://world.honda.com/HondaJet/
GM’s last aircraft built was the TBM Avenger…
http://www.shanaberger.com/TBF.htm
At least Honda’s products don’t need water pumps and alternators replaced EVERY 30,000 miles. GM’s are junk.
As horrible as Tata’s $2000 nano.
No way in hell would I give up my big car to become Nancy Pelosi’s hood ornament.
Best headline on DB yet.