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To: Pullin-GS who wrote (105436)	12/8/2000 2:42:43 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

>>Considering that 16.5% of the private sector are labor force are union members, and 38% of federal government workers are union, and 44% of local government workers are union. I don't think they are concerned with where the money goes...if they were, they would leave the union Totally misses the point. The 85% not compelled to be in unions need not support Dems by buying their products. >>And being that 50% of America approves of the political alignment of the Unions, your point is not valid. LOL. You have no idea what you are talking about. Unions are the most reviled institution in the US. >>Strange, US automakers have in fact INCREASED their share over the 10 years or so....after all they are the ones who cornered the SUV market early. What are you taking? They have never been lower in cars and now their leadership in trucks is being lost. Take out "fleet sales" and you'll see that in areas of actual consumer choice, US share is at an all time low.

To: Pullin-GS who wrote (105436)	1/11/2001 2:57:16 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

>>"The US automakers' share will continue to shrink - it will only get smaller." >>"Strange, US automakers have in fact INCREASED their share over the 10 years or so....after all they are the ones who cornered the SUV market early." << You're absolutely wrong. The Clinton/Gore years have been terrible for US manufacturers share-wise. In fact, Detroit lost more market share in the last two years than during the entire 1980's!: AUTOS-U.S. automakers need to rev up creative engines -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DETROIT, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Unlike the 1980s when U.S automakers lost market share here because of lower vehicle quality than Japanese imports, they now need to arrest their slide by revving up their creative engines and building more exciting vehicles, industry executives and observers said. The Big Three automakers -- General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler unit, the former No. 3 U.S. automaker -- have watched their collective U.S. market share slide from 76.1 percent in 1980 to 65.6 percent last year. In the last two years alone, the decline has been almost five points as Japanese, South Korean and European automakers have offered more desirable luxury and entry-level cars as well as new light trucks -- pickup trucks, minivans and SUVs, segments long dominated by the U.S. makes. ``Clearly as the Europeans and Japanese enter markets, there's going to be some sharing of those markets that were exclusively domestic before,'' Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.'s senior vice president of U.S. sales and marketing Jed Connelly said at the North American International Auto Show. The Big Three now hang their hopes for a rebound on more exciting designs to lure back defectors. New models on display this week at the auto show included GM's Pontiac Vibe, the Ford Escape and Chrysler's Jeep Liberty, SUVs combining a car's driving performance with a truck's roominess. However, for every new car offered by the domestic automakers, there is an import to satisfy the same target buyer. For example, the Vibe, on sale next year, shares parts with the Matrix SUV from Toyota Motor Corp.. ``Competition is intensifying,'' J.D. Power and Associates analyst Jeff Schuster said. ``Where there were fewer competitors five years ago, today each segment has many more players.'' ... biz.yahoo.com