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Originally Posted by jyl
Why would any other car company buy GM's plant and equipment? There is a surplus of production capacity, manufacturers are idling plants not expanding them. GM's lines are designed to make GM's designs, and are not flexible.
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Please explain as they are able to change designs every two years. Need to reconfigure equipment to do that. The wheel installer robot certainly could install a wheel on a different kind of car...maybe not build a solar panel or a wind turbine....
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Originally Posted by jyl
Parts for repairing/maintaining existing cars is a tiny business, relative to parts for new cars. The vast majority of the parts on your new car will never be replaced for the life of the car.
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Yes, good point, but if no (or significantly less) new cars were being produced there would be SOME market for stuff that you couldn't get. I guess it would a REALLY long time to need certain parts that you couldn't get off a parts car.
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