just a hint for you, Obama never pushed for any car...and if he had, you would not see it for years. he has been in office 100 days, you think they make cars that fast? get a grip , nothing you see come out, has anything to do with Obama...also keep in mind its a world market, not just US, and those cars could sell well in other areas.
I don't know about that. No, it is likely that this car was in development prior to Obama taking office. I'm just wondering if these projects were supported as being "green cars" that Obama has referred too. I'm not claiming he said "go make crap" and within four months, they came up with this. I know better. But that doesn't prove there were not communications between the car company, and the administration over what projects to push to the front, and which to relegate to the back. And you could be right. I see no evidence either way about it. But you can't really deny it's possible since Obama already kicked a CEO out of GM. You can't possibly claim he can request the CEO to step down, and not request they push this "green" clown car.
Beyond that though, it is interesting that the two car companies doing the worst off, and taking the most government bail out, and having the most government control, are also the two car companies coming up with crap right now.
GM has the PUMA, essentially a wheel chair with an electric motor that wouldn't survive hitting a pot hole. And this rolling cartoon car coming from Chrysler.
Now as for selling good elsewhere.... well great. I don't know about Chrysler, but GM's international division are already profitable. We need cars that can be made profitably in our domestic market, not over seas.
Unless you think that they can actually make this car, using expensive domestic labor, and sell it in Korea or Japan where labor is far cheaper? I don't see that happening. There's a reason why generally cars are imported, not exported. We'd really have to cut labor costs to do that.
