In India and other asian countries, the roads are bad enough. Not just roads, the gas stations in rural areas sell only Diesel (Tractors need diesel, not petrol[gasoline]).

The roads which will be super-fine for 3 miles will suddenly become the road to Minas Tirith for another 5 miles. Even Shadowfax cannot cross it easily.

Hummer is easily the vehicle for this terrain. With Diesel sold at less than a dollar in india. Plus Hummer's legendary reliability, military-strength suspension, not to mention its heavy powerful engine which could pull a tractor-load of corn or sugarcane easily, Hummer could sell in thousands in india if GM were to make it here.

Plus Indian roads (city) respects larger vehicles more than the smaller tiny ones. Size DOES matter here, and the biggest vehicles get more road space and are in a perverse way safer.

I saw one such vehicle in Pune. It was massive, huge, ugly as a butt, but POWERFUL.

If there's one thing that indians worship, its power, and Hummer's deep throat rumble cleared the road of traffic.

That's one beaut i would love to ride to work every single day.

If only GM were smart enough to build it in India, they could wallop every other large vehicle here...

The logic is flawless:

If bankers who employ far less people could get a Trillion, then why not a car maker who employs far more get a billion?

But this is not Chrysler of 1980s.

None of the car makers have any intention of using the bailout money to improve their infrastructure or stratgic plans.

They will use this bailout to burn through their weekly purchases, continue to make vehicles that produce profits in short term with no care about long term, and reward their management with millions in unearned money.

The sham of $1 salary is also a myth. Their hard salary may be $1, but i bet my ass it will include $1.3 million towards a company-owned Condo in Manhattan, company-funded college and private schools, company-funded gold plated toilet paper to wipe their golden butts, etc.

However not bailing them out would result in millions losing their jobs and politicians losing their votes.

The alternative would be to sell the car makers to any taker which guarantees jobs. Fire Sale with Government guaranteeing the pension plans for first 3 years and the buyer promising profits and earnings in next 3 years.

The same number as Americans.

Remember, that annual income of an indian has been rising @ 13.7% each year from 1992.

I see more Mercedes E200 on roads than i ever saw earlier. And the BMW dealership is located in a upper-middle-class neighborhood with one sold every week.

Numbers-wise the people who can afford Hummer is large. A Hummer costs less to make it in India (no export from US). And GM in India makes some pretty good cars: Chevy Malibu and Chevy Optra. Making a Hummer for them here will reduce costs by 60%, thus making it affordable to many.

Not all of us live with $1 a day as is portrayed in the press, just like not many in US stitch their own wounds and move in with their daughter as shown in Michael Moore's film.

Have you ever been to India?

You talk about Police Control Style, and stuff like that.

We repealed our version of the stupid PATRIOT Act long time ago.

Our Supreme Court kicks the government's ass every single day.

We don't have voting machine problems.

Considering the fact indian companies OWN the Steel market and own iconic car makers like Jaguar, i guess we worship power.

You may rant about the recent terrorist attack, but we didn't have a stupid president who martyred half an entire division in some god-forsaken piece of shit for filling corporate coffers.

Oh, we have Net Neutrality as law, and our medical care is one of the best and cheapest (next to Cuba).

We love and worship power. Power that is used well instead of invading a country which hated Al-qaeda and whose women wore miniskirts and practiced christianity openly...

So poor? Hmmm... interesting.

Considering FORD makes a profit here, not to mention GM which also makes the only profit here, and to add Jaguar bought by an Indian poor company, and the world's largest maker in India, plus 89% of the world's CD/DVD's made by an indian company in India, and a banking system that has withstood the complete meltdown that happened in US, and a parliment system that controls the usurious profits oil companies can make, and a free press that is really free and not controlled by any sinister dual-nationality-citizen, and the farmers who do NOT use genetic-modded seeds that bankrupt them, and a primary health care system that is the envy of the world...

India is indeed poor, it doesn't have Bush or Cheney. Instead it has an award-winning economist with an IQ as PM and a kick-ass finance minister who steered the country without having to throw millions out of jobs...

Why is worshipping power a bad thing?

Not worshipping it will be bad as Genghis Khan showed a long time ago.

Worshipping==Respecting, not bending over in our parlance.

We worship our numerous Gods (close to about 350+). We worship our movie stars, but it doesn't mean we bend over.

Worship here means deep respect.