Nader bad mouths NAIAS
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Nader bad mouths NAIAS
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I guess he wants every one to drive grey base model Volvo. The Detroit (and Chicago and NY) autoshow is about showing off new products and how exciting and fun they can be. I go to the autoshows because I have fun. I also want safty and great fuel economy too, but not at the expense of of what the American market place is all about, freedom of choice! Detroit is going to need fun and flashy products if they want to beat the beige cookie cutter monsters from Japan and Korea.
Ralph Nader's Jeep shot
The Detroit auto show attracted throngs of appreciative fans last week, but Ralph Nader wasn't among them. The consumer advocate, presidential candidate and perennial industry critic told Automotive News he was appalled by the stunts that car companies pulled to launch their vehicles at the show.
Nader was especially annoyed by a 2007 Jeep Wrangler that crashed through a plate-glass window at the show hall, crossed a downtown street, drove up the steps of a hotel and scaled an ersatz mountain -- with Chrysler group CEO Tom LaSorda aboard.
"It's high-level juvenile delinquency," said the author of Unsafe at Any Speed, "a grotesque caricature of what the auto industry is doing these days."
Instead of celebrating horsepower, muscle, glitz and trivia, Nader said, U.S. automakers should be showcasing safety and fuel economy.
Nader was in Detroit last week to address the annual Automotive News World Congress. He said he had no plans to take in the auto show.
The Detroit auto show attracted throngs of appreciative fans last week, but Ralph Nader wasn't among them. The consumer advocate, presidential candidate and perennial industry critic told Automotive News he was appalled by the stunts that car companies pulled to launch their vehicles at the show.
Nader was especially annoyed by a 2007 Jeep Wrangler that crashed through a plate-glass window at the show hall, crossed a downtown street, drove up the steps of a hotel and scaled an ersatz mountain -- with Chrysler group CEO Tom LaSorda aboard.
"It's high-level juvenile delinquency," said the author of Unsafe at Any Speed, "a grotesque caricature of what the auto industry is doing these days."
Instead of celebrating horsepower, muscle, glitz and trivia, Nader said, U.S. automakers should be showcasing safety and fuel economy.
Nader was in Detroit last week to address the annual Automotive News World Congress. He said he had no plans to take in the auto show.
I guess he wants every one to drive grey base model Volvo. The Detroit (and Chicago and NY) autoshow is about showing off new products and how exciting and fun they can be. I go to the autoshows because I have fun. I also want safty and great fuel economy too, but not at the expense of of what the American market place is all about, freedom of choice! Detroit is going to need fun and flashy products if they want to beat the beige cookie cutter monsters from Japan and Korea.
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Re: Nader bad mouths NAIAS
Nader is an idiot. Not only do I hate his political views and his commentary, but I hate him even more for the fact that if he hadn't run in 2000, Gore would probably be on his second term, not Bush...but I digress...
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I love how people who don't like cars love to impose thier views on everyone else as if there is only one way to think when it comes to the automotive industry. Don't tell me what I should buy.
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Originally Posted by Jason96T/A
Nader sounds like that mean old man down the street, or better still Grandpa Simpson on a rant...
Meh.
Meh.
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ya'll know what kind of pull this guy has, right?
back in the day he was the main force behind the vast majority of motor vehicile safety laws
check out Ralph Nader vs General Motors Corp. court ruling, 1970
he may spew out a lot of hot air, but some times he's got the right idea just the wrong way of expressing it
back in the day he was the main force behind the vast majority of motor vehicile safety laws
check out Ralph Nader vs General Motors Corp. court ruling, 1970
he may spew out a lot of hot air, but some times he's got the right idea just the wrong way of expressing it
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Re: Nader bad mouths NAIAS
Originally Posted by anasazi
ya'll know what kind of pull this guy has, right?
back in the day he was the main force behind the vast majority of motor vehicile safety laws
check out Ralph Nader vs General Motors Corp. court ruling, 1970
he may spew out a lot of hot air, but some times he's got the right idea just the wrong way of expressing it
back in the day he was the main force behind the vast majority of motor vehicile safety laws
check out Ralph Nader vs General Motors Corp. court ruling, 1970
he may spew out a lot of hot air, but some times he's got the right idea just the wrong way of expressing it
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Re: Nader bad mouths NAIAS
Originally Posted by stars1010
In my day we wore an onion on our belt......it was the style at the time
A crazy ol' coot saying crazy things - text book senility...
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Originally Posted by Jason E
Nader is an idiot. Not only do I hate his political views and his commentary, but I hate him even more for the fact that if he hadn't run in 2000, Gore would probably be on his second term, not Bush...but I digress...
From what I last heard he used to do quite a bit of walking due to his hatred of the automobile. I'm equally as surprised he's still around.
