Sigh, more stagecraft and stupidity from the Big 3 Automakers.
So, we know Ford’s Alan Mullaly is driving from Detroit to DC in an Escape Hybrid, and GM’s Rick Wagoner is pushing a Malibu Hybrid from Motown and exchanging it for a Cruze/Volt mule to drive (carefully!) the final two miles to the capitol. We even know that UAW Boss Ron Gettelfinger will be *gasp* flying to the hearings, thanks to the fine reporting at Jalopnik.
The Ford guy is actually driving the whole way in an Escape Hybrid. While the GM guy is driving a Malibu and then switching to a Volt for the last two miles? Of course the UAW guy is choosing to fly like the A in UAW stands for airline. You figure the head of the United AUTO Workers would drive an auto to a meeting where he will be begging for money. This part is the most funny.
Since Chrysler currently sells only two hybrids, the nearly identical Chrysler Aspen and Dodge Durango SUVs, it’s a safe bet that he will be rolling up to Capitol Hill in one of them, and so can you, if you hurry.
You see, just a week after the vehicles were launched this past October, Chrysler announced that it would be shutting down the Newark, Del., factory where they are made at the end of the year, discontinuing the entire Aspen/Durango lineup in the process.
Yes the Chrysler guy is driving to the begging session in a car that has been recently discontinued. Now that is case-in-point why this industry is going to be taken over by foreign carmakers. Toyota actually makes Hybrids that people are willing to pay money for.
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