Flint's Michael Moore: Time for big changes for General Motors and ditch the name

[Bozita]

Source: Flint Journal

Flint's Michael Moore: Time for big changes for General Motors and ditch the name
by Ron Fonger | The Flint Journal
Wednesday June 03, 2009

GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan -- Does Michael Moore have a screw loose or are his new ideas for General Motors so unconventional that they just might work?

Among those ideas: Ditching the venerable GM moniker.

"I would bury the name," he said of the 100-year-old company. "There's no way to recover from the the damage they have done to the brand."

In an interview with The Flint Journal Wednesday, the Flint-area native suggested he's earned some credibility for having warned the country years ago about an arrogant, out-of-touch GM via his 1989 documentary "Roger & Me."

"I tried to say something about it. I tried to wake people up and not much happened ... ," he said. "After a certain number of things I've done ... things I've predicted that (that have happened), I am asking humbly ... that I be given the benefit of the doubt, and that (these ideas ) at least get an airing ...

"I'm at least owed that."

Read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2009/06/flints_michael_moore_time_for.html

[Xipe Totec]

1. Colonel Motors? n/t

[JVS]

26. Colonel Clunker

[No Elephants]

2. "Owed that?" Is he serious?

[HisTomness]

6. Re: Is he serious?

At least as serious as you are in thinking you know better.

[No Elephants]

16. I like Moore as much as the next Dem, but neither General Motors nor the

NRA "owes him" anything. Maybe the American public owes him a debt of gratitude for his films, though. Then again, he's made a fortune from them, so maybe the American public has paid some of that debt.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. Being heard is not asking much.

I don't see his idea as preposterous. Yes, it should be debated.

[No Elephants]

25. I never said he was asking a lot or that his idea was preposterous or that it should not be debated.

I said only that GM did not "owe" him; and I even put the word "owe" in quotation marks each time I used it.

His points about guns are worthy of debate, too, but the NRA doesn't really "owe" him anything.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. I'm with Moore

on changing the factories to producing mass transit and alternative/hybrid vehicles. This is the wave of the future and means US jobs remain in the US.

[dionysus]

4. American Motors has a nice ring to it....

[bdamomma]

5. sounds good.

[Bozita]

7. That nameplate was the source of Mitt Romney's inherited wealth.

[dionysus]

9. but that was AMC tho right?

[Bozita]

11. history ...

http://www.allpar.com/amc/



In Big 3 territory, it was always referred to as American Motors.

[dionysus]

12. okay.. how about United Motors?

:P

[Bozita]

15. or MCMI (Middle Class Memories Inc.)

[lefthandedlefty]

24. Chrysler bought them out years ago

Remember Rambler that is where Jeep came from also

[Jack from Charlotte]

8. I've complied a list of potential names.....

Studebaker, Nash, Packard, Tucker, DeSoto, Rambler, Auburn, Stanley steamer, Pierce-Arrow, Oldsmobile, Leland, Maxwell, Overland, Franklin, Cord......

These are all fresh new names that GM could take that aren't associated with.... car failures... like the name.....General Motors.

Want more.... I've got hundreds more.

[skoalyman]

10. General Krapper,General Scrapper

:shrug:

[damntexdem]

13. Lieutenant Motors?

Well, at least as long as the feds own much of it, it won't be Private Motors. ;-)

[newinnm]

14. How about Treasury Motors?

[Thothmes]

18. How about United States Motors

we are the major share holder.

[Javaman]

19. How about the Poples Motors...

oops, to much of a commie ring to that, huh? It would make more sense since we own fucking 72% of it.

:banghead:

[zorahopkins]

20. We Could Call The Cars "Peoples Cars"

In German, that would be "Volkswagens".

[Javaman]

23. Nice post, Hitler.

LOL couldn't resist.

Cheers.

[JVS]

29. Yeah, but they'd have to be affordable, so there goes that idea.

[JVS]

28. Welfare Queen Corporation

[zorahopkins]

21. Verdant Motors

I'd suggest Verdant Motors.

Nice and green.

[Dob Bole]

22. I've heard the name "Government Motors" kicked around a bit...

...but I digress.

[JVS]

27. Ensign Engines

A more modest and downsized rank to match the workers' pay