The Big 3 are doing pretty damn good right now. This week get reports that Ford and Chrysler experienced increased sales in October and GM’s stock price shot up after its third quarter report.
The Obama administration literally saved the domestic vehicle manufacturers and they would like to remind you of that. Video after the jump.
Republicans around the country are freaking over Chrysler’s Super Bowl half-time ad that was narrated by Clint Eastwood.
Here is the ad, in case you missed it:
Karl Rove had this to say about it:
Yeah. Okay, Karl. Except that is totally cuckoo for Coco Puffs.
He was still talking about it tonight on cable news as they watched the primary/caucus returns roll in.…
Good news is hard to come by in Detroit these days but, yesterday, they got some very good news. Chrysler announced it is adding a third shift at the Jefferson Assembly Plant, restoring 1,100 jobs.
The shift would start in early 2013, according to Chrysler. Hiring will not begin immediately, and applications will only be accepted through Chrysler’s employment website at www.chryslercareers.com.
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I’m reading former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm’s new book A Governor’s Story in preparation for a review I’ll be writing for its release in a couple of days. I came across a paragraph which reminded me why Mitt Romney should probably just skip right over Michigan if he were to win the nomination. He should probably skip over Michigan trying to win the nomination, in fact. Granholm is telling the story about the CEO’s of the Detroit Three auto companies going to Washington, D.C. to appear before Congress for a second time, this time with their plans in-hand for turning their companies around.…
Good news for the Rustbelt states like mine (Michigan): Ford sales up 19% over last year. GM up 11%. Chrysler up a whopping 31%. Ford actually sold more vehicles than GM for only the second time since 1998.
But GM remains the dominant seller for the quarter with 592,545 vehicles sold compared with Ford’s 496,720 sales.
Crosstown rival Chrysler Group LLC posted another strong month with sales of 121,730 vehicles in March, up 28 percent from February, and a 31 percent increase from a year ago.
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If you haven’t seen the new ad Chrysler ran during the Superbowl last night, you should really have a look:
What does this city know about luxury, huh? What does a town that’s been to Hell and back know about the finer things in life?
Well I’ll tell ya: More than most. You see, it’s the hottest fires that make the hardest steel.
Add hard work and conviction and the know-how that runs generations deep in every last one of us.
That’s who we are. That’s our story.
Now, it’s probably not the one you’ve been reading in the papers.
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Remember back in the “good old days of 2009 when the Obama administration stepped in to keep two of the largest American auto companies from going under? Remember how, even though it was only a loan program and a temporary stock purchase that it was characterized as a “taxpayer-funded bailout”?
Well check out these headlines:
Here’s my message to Jim DeMint, James Inhofe, Richard Shelby and Tom Coburn:
SUCK IT!!!
Here’s DeMint from December 2008:
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