I just started watching the MacWorld video cast and skipping through it.

You had said some smartass remark about DCX and US company...

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But at 10:25, Jobs says

"Chrysler is the first of the big three AMERICAN auto companies...."

Steve can call it what he wants .... but the profits go to shareholders of Diamler. They don't remain in the USA as they once did (economically speaking).

These ain't the days of Iacocca. There was even a lawsuit because the place became Nazified after promising not to do that with management in the US.

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If GM is such a great "American" car company, they wouldn't have to build everything in Mexico, and Canada. Maybe they wouldn't have to send out the HHR hood and rear body panels to Japan to get stamped because we don't have the technology in America.
The only thing GM builds in America is boutique cars, like the Corvette.

Daimler Chrysler is more of an American car company then GM will ever be again.

Oh, and for all the folks who are posting Camaro photos, it ain't gonna happen any time soon. It seems after spending millions on a rear drive platform, GM abandoned it.

BGnR

The new Camaro looks like ass in my opinion, and the HHR is probably dumbest name for a car ever invented. I mean was it so ugly that they couldn't even give it a real name like "Uglaria" or "Nassty", no, they had to give it some abbreviation or acronym name.

I'll repeat from the other thread -- national origin is close to meaningless in the car business. It's good for marketing, jingoism, and little else.

As for the new Camaro's prospects, I'd say they're pretty good. With the success of the Mustang, and the forthcoming Challenger, GM must have an entry in that arena. Lutz wants it to happen, and if he's got as much influence as people think, it will happen.

The problem is that GM doesn't really have anything suitable to build it on. C6/XLR is too expensive. Zeta was killed so that GMT900 could be rushed out. But now it seems they're reconsidering Zeta, as long as it can be done more cheaply. This sets up another classic GM scenerio -- late to the party, with a half-baked, cheapened solution that's mediocre and unfulfilling. They'd better get it right; they can't afford to fire more blanks.

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I'm saying that many people call it an American company ----- EVEN STEVE.

I am not arguing the actual truth.

but you are Steve. You going "third person" too?

We just HAPPEN to share a name, that's all. I have A LOT more hair and better pancreas.