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Featured GM Buys out 50% of Buick Dealers for not investing in EV's

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Isaac Zachary, Dec 24, 2023.

  1. Leadfoot J. McCoalroller

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    It's deeper than that. If it's bigger, faster, heavier and likely to kill poor people faster, they'll go for it. See HUMMER EV, Cybertruck.

    So if the electricity is used to violently express lethal capability, it's all good.
     
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    Musk says things that drive the left crazy, so there are other ev makers.
    The right hates ev’s, so there are plenty of diesel and gassers available
     
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    They bought out the franchise agreement. Dealer still owns the location, but can't sell new Buicks.
     
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    I think it is ironic that there is more hate for musk than for Ford (published violently antiemetic newspaper) and VW (porsche made it be a new nameplate because they didn't want Porsche name on hitler's car). so 1) damn musk shouldn't have bought twitter, and 2) musk's companies other than X seem to be helping not hurting america, china, and the world. Twitter was a nasty place and it still is under new management.
     
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    agreed, but people have short memories. i'm constantly amazed at the vitreol toward musk over on the bolt.org forums., as if mary barra or gm is some bastion of liberal thinking
     
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    Well Musk and the other similar guy always in the news have stepped way past D and R values. They have so much hubris they don’t care where they step. It isn’t a D and R topic to me.
     
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    let's not step into freds
     
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    Do they even make electric buicks? Buy outs .....Oh well ..... that's one way to stop EV owners from bitching that all the charger stalls are constantly ICE'd
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    they don't even make electric chevys anymore :cool:
     
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    They're still making them but they just can't sell them until they take care of their Twitchy software. I'm thinking GM must not be able to do over the air reloads.
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    i think this is more than a 'patch'
     
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