America’s Automobile Future?
Trying to figure out what the future of cars will be is not a fun activity for someone who is at all into automobiles. There is no doubt that the Obama management of the automobile industry looms as a dark cloud over the industry.
I simply cannot picture myself as driving an Obama converted lawnmower into the mountains on a snowy January day. As a matter of fact I don’t want to think about driving the cars that Obama plans for my future on any, day sunny or snowy
I drive a Jeep Commander which meets my needs for day to day travel in my mountain life style. I’m into my 4th Jeep and perfectly happy with their performance. I think about a second car for fun weekend trips in the summer and I have been looking at a Maserati as the vehicle that might meet that requirement. Probably that will not happen since the $125,000 sticker price will surely evoke a wifely rejection stamp on that idea.
Any one who loves cars knows the process of thinking about and dreaming of owning a special car. The dream is part of the process and an enjoyable part even when a purchase is a far fetched possibility
I’ve owned several English cars from a period when there were English Cars. My 1953 MGTD was a car I will never forget. It was my first car and had a appearance that announced it’s very special quality. It was a 16th birthday present from my Dad who drove fast but had never exhibited an appreciation for foreign cars. He later told me that he bought me a two seater so that I wouldn’t have a pile of kids with me distracting my attention from driving. He also said that the top speed was about 85 to 90 miles per hour and that was fast enough to get me where I was going.
Later in life I had a Triumph as a second car and a Rover as my car when I was working in England. My wife drove a Jaguar for many years. The legendary electrical problems that Jaguar suffered were a minor distraction overweighed by the beauty and great road ability of the Jags during those years. The English made great cars. The British Automobile industry was nationalized and the great English cars disappeared one after another from the landscape. There is no doubt that Obama has a similar result waiting for American cars with his plans to have us all driving cars that are one step above the Fred Flintstone car depicted some years ago in that Stone age cartoon “The Flintstones”.
Does Obama also think that the Flintstone’s hometown of Bedrock is a desirable town planning outline for America?
No one in my mountain neighborhood drives a Prius. We don’t hate them, we don’t even think about them. They just won’t work here. I can feel the Obama answer that is coming.
It will be “don’t live there”. It will be described as socially incorrect to live in an area that requires equipment that does not meet the Obama requirements. To live a life style such as ours will be determined to be not political correct and we will be required to adjust to the Obama vision for America. Far fetched? I don’t think so.
The take over of the Auto industry is a gigantic first step on the Obama road of governance. General Motors will have government appointed directors and union directors controlling the company. This essentially is the English plan which led to the end of the Auto industry in the UK. By the time that the Socialist government in the UK was rejected, the auto industry had been decimated by the years of government mismanagement. The remaining cars built in the UK are by companies run from other countries. The automobiles that carry the legendary trademark names of Jaguar and Land Rover are actually owned by Tata Motors Ltd., an Indian company. Ratan Tata is Chairman of the Board.
Fiat is part of the Chrysler deal structured by the Obama Administration Automobile operating geniuses. Does Fiat equal Tata in the Obama restructuring of Chrysler? Sounds like it to me but we need to wait a bit to see what future surprises Obama has in store for us. I’m not even sure what a Fiat looks like these days. It is interesting to think that Chrysler is going to be run by a company that currently has no distribution network in the U.S.
I can hear the beat and lyrics of a Phil Collins song “In the Air Tonight” as the background of this deal. Collins sang ”If you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand” Obama changed the lyrics to” You told me you were drowning so I’ll give you Fiat to completely pull you down.”
Obama seems to be pushing the public towards embracing the title of another Collin’s song “I Don’t Care Anymore”. I think that there is a growing core of Americans who are waking up to the creeping nature of the Obama moves and their resemblance to Fascism, rather than Socialism… Hopefully we will all find that America “does care” and the population is awakening to the real list of dangers we are facing from this administration.
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