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I think the shit they receive is well deserved given my experiences over the past few decades. It’s not like I’m giving them shit because it’s popular. They’ve earned it. I think people that don’t know any better and have never owned a good car, have low enough expectations that a GM might be satisfactory.

85% GM would truly be remarkable

I guess we all have our diffrent experiences i just happen to think that GM doesnt deserve the amount of shit they recieve.

Of those you listed only one sells more vehicles overall than GM. VAG and Stelantis each have over 10 brands under their belt, BYD has five and Toyota has 4. So of the 4 brands selling more than GM, all are doing so with either an equal number of brands, or more.

I despise GM but your about to make me white knight them. You are retarded for thinking it matters how many “brands”.

Massive buy if one is banking on Boeing’s viability in the way we consider Coca Cola, IBM, GM, UPS, so on. Companies that simply are too large to fail, and cannot fail often due to having their tentacles in other parts of American industry. Boeing will never die, even if they don’t have retrieved space craft.

As a Bolt driver, it's funny watching Stellantis and Ford catch up to the PHEV market that GM stepped away from 7 years ago when their last model year of Volt released. BEVs are the future. You can argue that GM isn't the best global EV maker, but PHEVs are the stopgap for companies that didn't see the writing on the wall after the 2008 bailouts. I would have loved to see the Voltec drivetrain live on, particularly in Buicks and the rest of their small- to mid-size SUV portfolio. GM Energy and V2L technology will bolster their sales pitch in an era with rising utility bills and gas price volatility.

You do realize GM is THE highest vehicle seller by volume? So not sure why you are lying our your ass. Chevrolet alone is #3 in the US if we are just going by brand name only.

$GM LEAVING FOR NASDAQISTAN LMAO

They’ll do anything but make good cars lmao. Wouldn’t drive a GM if you gave one to me, would sell it to a sucker.

They should already pivot from General Motors (GM) to Super Motor (SM) and who says otherwise will be a considered as enemy of America. Thank you for your attention to this brain fart.

That’s not the full story. BYD, as an example, gets significantly more in subsidies than our domestic companies do. That means Ford, GM, Toyota and the rest are basically competing with the Chinese government on price. Not to mention a difference in safety standards, in safety standards for employees during production, and a whole slew of other things. There is more to it than just they don’t want to compete. Further, from a geopolitics standpoint point you don’t want Chinese companies getting a foothold here as China is our major adversary.

GM will be shy of making the top 100 by 15 or so billion market cap, and if other companies like Oracle follow suit, if this is the start of some mass exodus for exit liquidity (half joking) it will become slightly harder for GM to break in.

Institutional investors that are required to buy specific shares (top 100 NASDAQ for example) 'care'. This is move by GM to catch some of those institutions I believe.

GM dying would be great for American tech. Considering they do not have a single hybrid car - I don't see How they survive the next five years

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Next: GM announces its transition to an AI powered horse carriage company.

Branding is an “intangible asset”, which is literally one of the five moats. Exclusive content is also an intangible asset. No different than a patent. It’s something that competitors cannot copy. If customers want that content, they must go to Netflix. That’s what a moat is. Moats don’t make you invulnerable to losing market share. It’s just a competitive advantage. GM also has a branding moat. Coke has the strongest brand moat on Earth. 2nd is probably Google.

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They'd have more than that. The people that this program is aimed at is the administrative bloat: the Levels 68 to 70 (Partner, GM, VP) employees. For those that joined around when Satya became CEO, they've experienced a 10 year bull run of salary and stock grants that puts a lot of them into the 8-figure range.

When the automakers went bankrupt, GM stock went to pennies. Investors lost everything. They were too big to fail. True. But investors weren't.

Frequently in bankruptcy proceeding the existing stock shares are just eliminated and go to zero. If the company emerges from bankruptcy restructured, management can then issue totally new shares in the "new" company and is under no obligation to exchange in kind with previous investors. I lost $800 on the K-Mart/Sears deal that way which was a lot of money to me back then. Other chapter 11 companies to completely wipe out their shareholders include: GM (2009), Delta Airlines (2005), American Airlines (2011), Hertz (2020), Regal Cinemas (2022) if you need more references. Better than 50% chance you lose all your investment especially if it's going private which means no new shares in the new business will be publicly issued at all. I hope it works out for you. But I always remember what my Gramma used to say, "A bird in the hand...can still shit halfway up your arm."

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GM Mossad. You’re going to have your hands full today!

Those aren't moats. If brand was a moat then GM would still be 40% of the auto market. As for content, Netflix content is stall and boring, so exclusive content is not a moat either.