My Dad was always a GM guy.
He drives a Hyundai now, and he loves it. But back in the day, the bigger, heavier and more powerful the General Motors car, the more he loved it. Our family entered the OPEC oil embargo in the mid ‘70s with an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser and a Pontiac Bonneville parked in the garage. There are Russian tanks that get better fuel efficiency than those cars.
A bloated business structure and incredible inefficiencies nearly killed GM back around 2008, when our entire economy was teetering on the edge of disaster. Drastic measures were needed to survive.
So, goodbye, my beloved Pontiac.
Farewell, Oldsmobile.
Hasta la vista, Hummer.
Saturn – we barely knew ya! Don’t forget to write!
