Re: GM in real trouble - actually NHTSA and American public are to be blamed, too.

<<<<The best solution is to eliminate the trade restriction, namely the

moronic NHTSA FMVSS regulations and stifling EPA regulations. Once the
market is open to every manufacturer, the intense competition will
force
General Motors and others to improve their products in order to stay
alive. The other benefit is that General Motors (and even Ford) can
sell
whatever vehicles from other countries and relabel excellent Opel as
Chevrolets or whatever brand for US market whenever the demand
warrants.
With price of petrol approaching or surpassing $3 a gallon, they can
just import the economical vehicles without subjecting them to
$10million cost and lengthy process of engineering and certifying to
meet antediluvian US regulations.
It has been done in other countries and worked well. In the 1980s and
1990s, Chile removed the trade barriers and local protection for the
ships. This move forced the local industry to improve its products.
Same
with Australia which is adapting ADR, its equivalent of FMVSS, to
harmonise with ECE and reducing the import tariff. General
Motors-Holden
and Ford Australia got their act together and pushed hard to improve
its
local products. What's more, Australians enjoy more choice of products
than ever before.

It is shame that Americans are blaming wrong things and pointing
fingers
at wrong reasons. Now is time to eliminate NHTSA and to open the market

to the competition. NHTSA has been stonewalling the Congress and
American public about its failure and shortcomings. Every attempt to
harmonise FMVSS with ECE is always stalled or obfuscated left and
right.
The riot act is getting too long and too obvious not to do anything.

Well?>>>>



If this happens I would love thet get my hands on a VW Lupo Turbo
Diesel!

While they are at it, why not make the US license plates look like the
ones in Germany. All wide/long and slender. It looks cool.


O2

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