The new Camaro is the best car for the dollar ever produced by GM aside from…the Chevy Cobalt SS (.091 on skidpad and fastest FWD times ever around the Nurburb) the Corvette ZO6 and, of course, the ZR-1–the best performance per dollar value of all time (Nissan GTR aside).
Add the new Malibu to this and you have a reason besides politics to buy from the General.
Seriously, with GM announcing its bankruptcy (you heard it here first, its a done deal and I will pay all my Facebook friends $1 if I am wrong) there will be no other reason to buy their cars unless you want to support, well, I don’t what. While GM’s board showed no incentive to pursue profitable cars that consumers might buy until recently, the government and the UAW won’t improve things much. Surgical bankruptcy sounds like the jumbo shrimp of jurisprudence to me. Cadillac and Chevy have products that can and should make it on their own.
So.
I think the President should fish for votes somewhere else. He has the UAW vote in perpetuity, so why piss off taxpayers or bondholders when they eventually revolt? It will look like a bad investment that takes away from better looking investments (health care, summer camp, muscle car magazines) elsewhere.
It is cool to see a President pitch cars, banks and insurance policies (it really is). However, I suggest that he use his promethean celebrity to promote GM by simply buying and driving a new Camaro–preferably with the V-6. Obama is the best advertising property in the world at present. For the moment he has the celebrity that no money, tax policy or even political tap dance can buy. Buy one Camaro, get a few pictures in the badassmofo thing and forget about bailing out GM.
Unless the UAW discovers Jeb Bush.
Who might also enjoy the car.
