The cost of producing an auto in the U.S., combined with skyrocketing fuel and repair costs, combined with a shrinking dollar and a vanishing Middle Class, is not conducive to the return of the once heralded Big-3. Similar to the buffalo and Studebaker salesmen, that class, as they say, has already graduated.
Those folks in Europe don't actually like riding a motor scooter in the rain sporting their significant other on the rear; they don't have any other choice except walking. Given that choice, roll out the old scooter; we're going for a spin.
You don't have to be an executive from a foreign car manufacturer to determine that the U.S. auto industry is in depression, you only need a little common sense, eighth grade math, and a dose of reality.
The auto industry is nothing more than a symptom of the issues that face all of America's failing economic underpinnings.
Wake up Middle America, it might be a nice day to go look at scooters before they are all gone.
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