*It even looks like Geraldo is a fan of Auto Spies from the picture...oops, sorry, Autopsies ;)
They used to say that what was good for General Motors was good for the country, but that day is long gone. And today the wounded auto giant announced that it was shrinking itself by offering buyouts to more than a 100,000 hourly workers. For years, GM’s clearly inept management has been crying about how hard it is to compete with the rest of the world because of the price of labor and especially its pensions. But the bigger reason is that many of its cars stink, and I say that as a present stockholder and former consumer.
Consumer Reports, the authoritative, influential and totally above-reproach magazine, just came out with its annual top 10 list for 2006 vehicles. For the first time ever, all ten vehicles, ranging from SUV’s to inexpensive, mid-price and luxury sedans, to minivans, green cars and even that once All-American category, pickups, are Japanese. Everyone of them.
The top ten list includes four vehicles from Honda, including the small Civic, the medium Accord, the Odyssey minivan and the Ridgeline pickup; two green vehicles from Toyota, the Highland Hybrid and the Prius; two from Subaru, the fun to drive Impreza rally car (my son owns one), and the Forester SUV; and one each from Lexus, Acura and Infiniti.
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