[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: bashing Detroit
After hearing my brother's story, I wouldn't buy a GM built on any day. He was a product planner there some years ago. One day he took a large, new, GM product out for an errand. He accellerated to 100mph down an onramp. Upon entering the deserted six-lane, he stomped the brake pedal to the floor, just to see what would happen. Nothing happened. He assumed he broke something, tried it again gently, and it worked normally. Anything but a huge stomp produced the expected control-reducing nose dive. He repeated it in another car, then again with the product planner for that division. The other guy asked my bro not to say anything, and he agreed. He kept his word even when the next model year had the same problem. He says there are worse problems than that, and he was on his way out of GM. He had enough enemies there because he drove a furrin car and was moving to a better position with a furrin competitor. Who knows, my Audi may have the same problem, I'm not about to test it. I doubt it after the brake system was subjected to the unintended defamation debacle. Probably the only people who run into this problem are about to slam into something, and don't realize it happened. I've found myself taking the gravel over panic braking in traffic in Detroit, I've seen two cars slam into stationary traffic without decelerating on the highway. I watch my mirror carefully. Scott '90 200tqw '98 Econoline lease '96 SuperV '57 Stratotanker _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
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