How is it that General Motors is the biggest car company in U.S.A. when they can't sell cars there?

Question

They're always boasting about how they're the biggest car company, yet THEIR CARS STILL SUCK, and they can't sell cars in the U.S.A. :\

Answer 1

General Motors is a conglomerate of many car companies including Opal in Germany. Size can be related to profit. If each division has a small profit, the overall profit may be more then a smaller company. If they are losing money, after a while, they WON'T be the largest company.

American made cars have a built-in difficulty competing with cars made in Asia or developing countries because labor costs are lower. In order to compete, less expensive materials and automation have traditionally been the answer resulting in cars that wear out faster and breakdown more often. The newest trend is to have the cars made in those same foreign countries where labor costs are lower so as to improve their quality. The industrial age is over and the US has moved on to other areas with the unfortunate result that well-paying industrial jobs in the USA have been replaced by more jobs but they are either lower paying service jobs that will not pay the bills of established laborers or high-paying jobs that they are not qualified for. This is the basis of many people in the USA not liking the global economy and upset with immigrants who can live off low wages and take some of the skilled jobs remaining such as heavy equipment operators.

Answer 2

You just asked and answered your own question. And I agree with the majority on that poll. I have been saying the same thing for years. Even an idiot could have seen this coming from 25 years ago. Back then the experts were telling the 'BIG THREE' that they had to change or go under. None of them listened. I used to work with Honda when the first Civics went on sale. The ''BIG THREE" attacked and ridiculed them instead of trying to meet their quality standards. Nobody is laughing in Detroit today.

Answer 3

I guess you went to every single city in the US and found the gates to the Chevy dealer padlocked and the lots empty?

Get real, they sell a LOT of cars, pickups, SUVs, trucks, buses etc. Their figures are down a bit but Suzuki, Honda and Toyota would love to be able to sell that many.

Now, stop exaggerating and try writing some decent questions.

Answer 4

General Motors is the greatest car company in the WORLD the problem is the japs have shown so much of their propaganda that Americans have this perception that American cars suck, and its sad, look at all of the workers at GM and Delphi that are losing their jobs to japs and chinese because of this propaganda. Remember be American buy American cause the job you just might be yours

Answer 5

Becasue it wins by default basically. How many other US car companies are there? GM runs all of them.

Answer 6

They sell a ton of cars in the U.S. You saying they can't sell cars in the U.S. doesn't make it so. For example, in Februrary 2007 GM sold over 311,000 cars (GM.com).

Answer 7

they make lots of trucks, both pickup and heavy duty.They also make train locomotives.

Even if they'd stop makiing cars completely, they'd still be around.

Answer 8

they have lots of trucks and the those cheap cars that people have to buy, eventhough it has bad record and mileage

the Japanese cars are too expensive for the rest of us

Answer 9

see the USA in a Chevrolet........made in America....priceless!