Radar pretends it's 1979
April 07, 2009 10:08 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Its big, Drudgy, anti-GM scoop is that lots of GM employees drive "foreign cars." In fact, Radar launched an "exclusive investigation" (complete with photos!) to snoop around employee parking lots and oh my, what it found:
BMW. Toyota. Honda. Acura. Nissan. Those are just a few of the foreign cars that RadarOnline.com discovered filling the parking lot at the GM Technical Center in Flint, Michigan.
Here's where the whole misplaced, 1979 angle comes in: I'm pretty sure BMW, Toyota, Honda, Acura, and Nissan all make cars in America. (Y'know, by employing American workers.) So the whole buy-American angle is lamely out of date.
If the point was to show that not every GM worker drives a GM car, that's one (irrelevant) thing. But Radar's angle that GM workers are thumbing their noses at a taxpayer bailout by buying "foreign" is just plain dumb.












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Wasn't it just a few years ago that GM was praised for the kind of cars they made? And they had amazing profitability?
All of this criticism lately-- they don't make cars people want, they don't make good cars, they're all gas guzzlers-- are cliches straight out of the 70s-- and untrue now.