Kurt

Why Auto Stocks Are an Easy Short

Andy, your knowledge of the auto industry is naive and woefully uninformed. Your article perpetuates stereotypes that have been obsolete for a good many years now.

The facts are:
1. Buick (GM) is tied with Lexus for long-term reliability, per JD Power (which, incidentally, stopped publishing statistical variance with their quality studies because there is no statistical difference in quality among the major manufacturers).

2. The N. American automotive press corps picked the Saturn Aura (GM) over the Toyota Camry for N. American Car of the Year (2007), and the Chevy Malibu (GM) over the Honda Accord for the same honor this year.

3. The LA Times wrote that the new Cadillac CTS (GM) is better than *anything* produced by Lexus, Infiniti, Acura, BMW, and Mercedes.

4. The Chevy Tahoe 2-mode hybrid (GM), a full-size SUV that gets the same city mileage as a 4-cyl Camry, won the Green Car of the Year award at the recent LA Auto Show.

5. GM offers more 30+ mpg vehicles than any Japanese manufacturer, and your assessment of the game-changing Chevy Volt as 'too little too late' displays your ignorance not only of the vehicle, but of the extraordinarily complex vehicle development process.

Do a little growing up and a lot more research the next time you pretend to give advice.