More on the bailout

The Mayor of Lansing MI on the Bailout:



What he fails to mention is that the Motor Trend Car of the Year is the Cadillac CTS MSRP for a base, manual transmission CTS: $34,420. Yeah let me run out and buy one of those. And the MPG is comparable to the MPG I get from my SUV. He makes a big deal about it being an award winning car but come on I don't care what Motor Trend says, a person is going to buy what they can afford and what they want.

As far as the safety goes, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety There were 72 winners of the Top Safety Pick award. Of those 72 winners 55 are foreign vehicles (some of which are made in America by the way which the mayor very conveniently left out). I also thought it was interesting that there were no American made minivans, and most of the SUV's and pick-up trucks are foreign. Typical American vehicles you'd think that the American car makers would run away with those. Another interesting fact, Chrysler didn't have any Top Safety Picks, didn't they already get a bail out and paid it back and now are asking for another one? Why is that?