GM to shut down Spring Hill Traverse production for 5 weeks

URS DRIVER wrote:

WHY DONT THEY GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THE PLANT. THEY SPENT MILLIONS ON THE PLANT TO GET IT OPEN, BUT THEY KEEP SHUTTING IT DOWN FOR WEEKS,MONTHS. STUPID THEY SHOULD HAVE NEVER OPENED OR THEY SHOULD CLOSE SOME PLANTS IN MICHIGAN AND MOVE THE CARS TO SPRING HILL. THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE THE STATE OF MICHIGAN HAS A GOVERNOR WHO IS TRYING TO KEEP THE PLANTS UP AND RUNNING. TN.GOV ERNOR IS PISSED OFF BECAUSE A REPUBLICAN DID NOT BECOME PRESIDENT. THE WHOLE PLANT CLOSING DEAL IS ALL ABOUT POLITICS

No, actually it's about inventory.

We wouldn't have this discussion if these so called, "Americans" stop buying cars from communist countries!

Thats true Bubba. I recently purchased a 2008 Chevy Malibu from Alexander and I love the car and I was happy to help them get rid of old inventory.

whoa they need to stop that, thats my job on the line here, just relocated up here, this would really suck

Oops, I meant Walker Chevy.. i wonder if their dealership will survive the GM cuts. Hope so, I really like the people there.

"Communist countries???" Where do you buy a car from Cuba, Laos or North Korea?

Maybe he means Alabama. That's where my Honda was built.

Roy Stalin wrote:

"Communist countries???" Where do you buy a car from Cuba, Laos or North Korea?

Bubba wrote:

We wouldn't have this discussion if these so called, "Americans" stop buying cars from communist countries!

My Toyota was built right here in the good ole USA, BUBBA!!! I bought it used, paid cash and in the process helped a fellow American out of debt. Can you say that? Doubt it. But my buying a Toyota or a Honda has nothing to do with GM or Ford, or anyone else going under. Their going under because people can't afford to buy new cars or make payments on the one they have when they should not have bought it along with that $200,000 $400,000 house they bought.

I am a proud American and am grateful to live in a country where I have the liberty to buy what I want without be judged!!!

GM Cars Suck I own A Malabu and it sucks

All you URS Drivers work for nothing over there & want to cry about spring hill going down. Don't worry you can hual rental cars for nothing. GM needs to shut Spring HIll down & get ride of all you dead beats that live on the road for nothing !!

URS DRIVER wrote:

WHY DONT THEY GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THE PLANT. THEY SPENT MILLIONS ON THE PLANT TO GET IT OPEN, BUT THEY KEEP SHUTTING IT DOWN FOR WEEKS,MONTHS. STUPID THEY SHOULD HAVE NEVER OPENED OR THEY SHOULD CLOSE SOME PLANTS IN MICHIGAN AND MOVE THE CARS TO SPRING HILL. THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE THE STATE OF MICHIGAN HAS A GOVERNOR WHO IS TRYING TO KEEP THE PLANTS UP AND RUNNING. TN.GOV ERNOR IS PISSED OFF BECAUSE A REPUBLICAN DID NOT BECOME PRESIDENT. THE WHOLE PLANT CLOSING DEAL IS ALL ABOUT POLITICS

URS hauls car for nothing & all the drivers work for nothing, so don't wine & bitch b/c Spring Hill is closing, your scab ass can go haul cars somehere else for free

spring hill and orion mi plant and one other are possible plants to stay open. one of the plants are going to get the new small car. I would thin with all the money they put into spring hill they would keep it open. for orion to get the new small car they will have to put alot of money into it to retool the plant. Orion has to have a new paint shop let alone stripping the plant to bring a new car in. i dont see orion getting it. although i hope we do. good luck to all our gm workers out there that are loosing thier jobs.

Tell me, do you people at these plants have a union? What is the average wage per worker?

I just heard the Spring Hill plant is going to be "idled". I have heard it has recently been retooled and started calling people back. It seems to be the newest of the GM facilities and would logically be more automated. If i were to choose where to build a new model of car, The youngest automated facility would be my choice.

You just heard this 4hrs ago? it's like 15hr old news.

When GM (or Ford) will build a gasoline car which gets 40mpg, is trouble free, rides good, looks good and is priced right, then I'll be the first on the block to buy it. Until then, I'm happy with my American made Civic. People buying autos from foreign owned companies has nothing to do with GM going down the drain. GM's business model, and their unions, is the problem. As for Spring Hill, I feel for the community. It's a shame that a quiet, peaceful community has been overtaken by industry, only to watch it fall.

Well Bubba Communist countries? Japan is Socialist NOT Communist and Toyota whether it is made in Japan, USA, Mexico and even the Moon is better quality than a GM, Ford, or Chrysler built ANYWHERE!!!

my Chevy Malibu's brakes are squeaking like crazy and the tranny is lurching. The car is a 2008 and has 7400 miles on it.
grrrrrrrrr!

wonder if GM will just sell the plant at some point,and if they do,i hope Penske buys it and builds Saturns there,like they use to!