General Motors Cements Title As Largest Automaker In The World

and, size does not matter, quality does and still not impressed with much GM makes

@CarCrazedinCali: The numbers speak for themselves and I'm even less impressed with what Toyota makes.

Give credit where credit is due.They have a great warranty 100k for powertrain and Onstar which is unbeatable in safety and security.Even the Nav feature that downloads the directions to your radio Instead of looking for a place after stopping.Keep it up.

I never owned a GM and will never buy a GM. The only chance I drive a GM was from the rental company. Honestly GM has been improving a lot but their quality, craftmanship, reliability and the detailing are still far below the industry average. It would be better if the cars are powered by Opel design engines. Don't get me wrong. I am not comparing with Toyota or VW only. I am comparing with the other brands, like Honda, Nissan, Mazda, VW, Hyundai,......... .

CarCrazedinCali is right. Size does not mean anything while quality does. GM is only popular in US and Canada which pretty much fits the American taste. USA is still the biggest auto market in the world, so it explains why GM could sell the most cars. Great warranty is just a tactic to fool the consumers. The pads and rotors will wear out in just 2 years. Muffler needs to be replaced under 50K. The paint and body cannot resist the rain and snow and got rusted easily. 100K powertrain warranty is just BS to me. Before hitting 100K milestone, you already spend like 10 grands to fix the other issues.

I love listening to people who make a half-dozen grammar mistakes drone about about "quality".

OR

Non-native English speakers (who get some leeway for errors) that drone on about "the US market".

So Co-wang, which is your excuse?

You'd still be starting cars with a crank, or at least filling the air with hydrocarbons (like the Euros until 1993) if not for GM's engineering prowess. (Cadillac self-starter and GM catalytic converter; among thousands of other innovations adopted industry-wide.)

...and I'm a Mopar guy!

I guess probably only the native US english speakers understand what you said.

By the way, my username doesn't represent where I am from and what I speak. Good guess but very naive guess as well.

Co-wang you ignored the other possibility... You are in fact a native speaker but your missives on "quality" are riddled with spelling and grammar errors. (I count twelve grammar errors in the first paragraph alone.) When you communicate poorly, you should not expect your opinions to be taken seriously. Just for laughs, let's pretend I assign some value to what you've written.

Do tell, which vehicles would be improved "if the cars are powered by Opel design engines"? The Corvette? Any of the Cadillacs? GMC trucks? The Chevy Cruze?

Can you name a current "Opel Design" engine and elaborate on what makes it superior to its North American equivalent?

"Whats the excuse for people that are whites that have grammer errors like yourself."

epic! lol hypocrisy in its finest. Let me help you.

"What's the excuse for people that are white, and that have grammar errors much like yourself?"

As to the other issues you raise regarding Chrysler, it's a shame that Mercedes helped them out as much as they did, you know, by not investing in the company and then sucking the company dry when they split.

Government Troll, if you're going to mention Chrysler "bailouts", you should at least know that the US Government only acted as a co-signer in 1979 (Loan Guarantees). The second time around (2009) the gov' collected a billion dollars in interest. (Perhaps Chrysler should go out of business more often?) Both times, the loans were repaid far ahead of schedule.

Given your principled stance on government involvement with private industry, will you also be boycotting Toyota and Honda for repeatedly tapping the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation? (They are a government-controlled arm of the Bank of Japan.) Their 0% interest loans were the basis of Toyota's "Saved by Zero" campaign (You may have heard of it.) Let's not forget the money they recieved from the EU.

I'll also assume that given your vitriol for unions, (Vitriol means "hatred") everything from Germany is off the list, having been built by the far-more-militant-than-UAW IG Metall (http://www.igmetall.de/cps/rde/xchg/internet)

I'll put that chicken wing back in my mouth now.

Angry, isn't he talking about Chrysler?

It's clear the orginal post I am responding to references "Chrysler".

I think angryinch is so angry, his reading comprehension skills have been damaged. Soon he'll lose more basic motor functions and his current adult diapers won't be enough to maintain basic hygiene.

As for "UAW talking points"; when was the last time you honestly heard a UAW official speak with any authority on trade policy... The Reagan era? Today's UAW is about building so-called solidarity with other entry-level workers regardless of nationality. To Quote: "UAW President Bob King sparked outraged among progressives and the labor movement by endorsing the Korea Free Trade Agreement.

Angryinch has instead fallen back on HIS talking points, taken from the neo-conservative flavor-of-the-day.