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Win or lose, the UAW is doomed
But labor shouldn't be blamed for the Big Three's failure to compete.
Andrew Leonard [2007-09-25]

  • SUV Mystery

    I wonder if someone on this thread can explain to me the Great SUV Mystery. How in the world did Detroit sell monstrously-oversized vehicles to one, two and three-person households throughout America? I live in the city, I navigate my Corolla within parades of these houses on wheels. I go to the suburbs, same thing, only doubly.

    I'm aware of the obvious smart marketing -- selling imagined status and "adventure" and alleged superior safety (I have not seen any real evidence of this), but how did such a truly huge number of Americans buy into this? Seriously, how can so many of us be so dumb?

    -- Quiet Type
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    Tuesday, September 25, 2007 01:28 PM
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