auto bailout?

How will an auto bailout help?

How will giving a failing business a loan help?

The american auto business has not been doing well, they have not been making exciting cars.  The big three are no longer the three largest auto makers in the United States.  

Toyota and Honda are Japanese owned, but they employ a huge amount of Americans.  

Is the real reason for giving the American auto industry bailout money because they employ such a large amount of American Union Workers.   

What plans will they have to make a profit in the future?  In a future that right now isn't looking so good for the auto industry.  For really any auto industry.  Maybe Ford will switch to making bicycles, and GM will start manufacturing solar panels.

Also, Mercury is a useless car brand.   Plymouth was  a useless car brand that is doing just now under the brands Dodge and Chrysler.    Is there any Mercury car that would not sell as well as a Ford?   Mercury is supposed to be a slightly nicer version than a Ford, but really, they aren't fooling me.  It's a Ford that is slightly uglier and has a different name.

So could Ford save money by eliminating Mercury?   

GM owns:

Chevrolet

Buick

Pontiac

GMC

Saturn

Hummer

Saab 

and Cadillac

I never understood the point of Buicks.    They are large and ugly, and look extremely heavy.

Saturn started out all nice and good as a new car company, but now they are all European models with American names.

GMC is a utility brand.   Which basically means that they are Chevy vehicles, but are more likely to be bought as company cars because the name GMC evokes more of an idea of an Utilitarian vehicle, and Chevrolet is a more masculine brand.

A huge fan of the original Hummer, now known as the H1, I am upset with the H2 and H3.  Why did they need to make a good car worse.

An H2, for those of you who haven't noticed, is a Chevy Tahoe with more Angular body panels, they share nearly everything that you cannot see like the chassis, gearbox, engine, and so on.  So why would you pay more money for something just as good?   I could cover a little MG with Ferrari body panels, it wouldn't make the car any faster, better, or more expensive.

Recently Garage 419 pointed out that there have been very few new vehicles from American Auto makers.   There have been new models.  But they are not anything new.   What happened to the future vehicles?  To the fresh ideas?   The retro ideas are old.   wanna go super retro?  Bring back the model T.  Bring back the crank start.  Bring back bench seats in sedans.   

Okay, it would be nice to have full size spare tires back, seriously.

Oh, and two spark plugs in each cylinder would greatly improve gas mileage.  What happened to all those cars from the 70s that got over 50mpg?  Why did we get rid of those?