  Detroitman Member Username: Detroitman Post Number: 932 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 216.78.45.196 |
Chinese automaker eyes Detroit March 17, 2006 BY MICHAEL ELLIS FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20060317/BUS INESS01/603170349/1014/BUSINES S | ||
Detroitduo Member Username: Detroitduo Post Number: 550 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 194.138.39.56 |
More likely a suburban move, than a city move... | ||
Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx Post Number: 464 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 12.2.196.17 |
Either way, it's jobs! Yay employment! | ||
Machoken Member Username: Machoken Post Number: 1154 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 207.145.38.104 |
Agreed with Genesyxx. Get 'em here, we need the jobs. | ||
Jdkeepsmiling Member Username: Jdkeepsmiling Post Number: 66 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 208.50.91.234 |
We should really focus on getting them to move Downtown... Why can it not be a Downtown move? Thjey could get themselves a nice little building like 3 blocks from GM, it would be a definite message. | ||
Miss_cleo Member Username: Miss_cleo Post Number: 119 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 69.47.85.139 |
what kind of message? HAHA we took all your jobs? great message | ||
Ilovedetroit Member Username: Ilovedetroit Post Number: 2135 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.246.57.75 |
Welcome, welcome! | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5401 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 209.216.150.127 |
This would be great news. Geely is coming to North America, and nothing is going to stop them. It would also be benefical to local area OEM's to be close to the HQ for compnent deals. Mr. Harmer was in Southfield Wednesday AM giving a talk about the auto industry. It's very good news that they are considering the area. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3334 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
KIA just moved to Georgia with 2,500 jobs, and that's just the tow truck drivers. Geely coming to Detroit? That's nice, hell we buy the rest of their schitt, why not? jjaba, LOL, invoking Skipper's Rules, believe it when you see it. They should find something, Detroit has 90,000 vacant lots. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 8273 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 70.53.96.49 |
What do we buy that is N. American anymore? We are just a consumer society now (though not for long without jobs we won't be buyiing anything). It just seems sad that we can't build our own companies anymore. | ||
Crew Member Username: Crew Post Number: 870 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 146.9.52.20 |
I'm not sure if this is off topic but I was talking to someone who was helping dismantle a GM plant in the Flint area. GM sold an old 4cyl engine line to a Chinese company. They were crating up everything and shipping the machinery to China to make engines there. He told me that the Chinese wanted EVERYTHING including the bolts that anchored the machines to the floor. It seems ironic to me that we may be buying Chinese made cars with engines designed by GM back in the 1970's. | ||
Toolbox Member Username: Toolbox Post Number: 849 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.184.29.148 |
Downtown is not condusive to an engineering and tech facility for an automotive manufacturer. Look where current companies like Denso, Valeo, Conti-Teves, Borg-Warner, Nissan, Toyota, Kia, NTN, Bosch, Hella and the likes. DCX NA HQ and Tech Center is almost a perfect setup. Most of the operations could be under one roof if JTE/PROC was added in Auburn Hills. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3339 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
Toolbox is amazing. He knows Detroit, and the sociology of automotive enterprizes. This Forum has incredible talent. Crew should know that the Chevy Eqinox engines are made in Shanghi, China. There's a shipping pipeline from the Chinese factory to Vancouver, BC where they are loaded onto trains for Ontario where the car is assembled. Talk about a world car under the GM nameplate. It looks almost identical to the old Chevy Blazer or jjaba's Olds Bravadas. Thanks for sharing your knowledge about Flint and the floor bolts. Sad but true. Geely might want to talk to Michael Moore about a move to Flint. There are plenty of idle car-shop Johns and a hell of a lotta of abandoned factories. Hundreds of them are playing cards right now in the rubber room down to the Union Hall, waiting to be called back. jjaba. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 3805 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 141.217.174.223 |
YES Geely! Come to the Motor City. We need Jobs. | ||
Motorcitymayor2026 Member Username: Motorcitymayor2026 Post Number: 600 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 70.230.16.61 |
Oh, wow! I REALLY hope they move downtown. That would signal to the world that Detroit isn't dead! Kilpatrick better start wining and dining with these folks! | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 12 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 12.45.2.184 |
It would be nice to see Geely in the WSU/TECH area. It should fit their needs or the burned down factory, it can't remember the name of it or maybe the packard plant. Geely could easily fit that mammoth site. Re-use DETROIT re-use!313 | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2373 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.58.120 |
Gee | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 543 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.212.169.194 |
Gosh, I hope they open more Walmarts too... jobs and cheap stuff! | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3359 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
Top ten reasons to buy a Geely. 10. You get egg rolls/moo goo gai pan at closing. 9. Free Chinese finger toys for parties. 8. Towtruck warranty when you break down. 7. Peking Opera on the radio. 6. Peking Duck combo #6, party of seven. 5. Have sex in the car, you are horny in an hour. 4. Chinese 5 yr. plan, order new car. 3. Out with Eddie Bauer, in with Chinese designs. 2. Negotiate terms of sale on abacus. 1. Oil change, tune up and press your shirts too. jjaba. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 544 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.212.169.194 |
0. Exporting profits ensures even more ruins to whine about. | ||
Detrola Member Username: Detrola Post Number: 7 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 69.14.28.209 |
Buy american! Hondas are made in america, by americans. NOT GOOD ENOUGH! Buy GM products, but not their SAAB brand. Buy FORD products, but not their VOLVO brand. On second though boycott FORD because they advertise in gay publications. When you buy a foreign car, an american autoworker loses her job. But I bought a honda, made in OHIO. NOT GOOD ENOUGH! Only UAW members count as american auto workers. Yet, now we say welcome foreign automaker. Please give me a job. After all, detroit needs jobs, even if it is with a company whose success may cost US auto companies market share which could in turn cost detroit jobs. Sorry to hear you just got laid off from GM...did I tell about my new job... This is why without shame, this member of two unions drives a used volvo.(my second used volvo) RENEW, REUSE, RECYCLE...how do you like my brand new hybrid... Hypocrisy, gotta love it. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2375 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.58.120 |
A sign of the times?  | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5404 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.228.195.20 |
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Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 314 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
During the time needed for the Geely to perform the R&D necessary to legally enter the US market, both Ford and GM would have downsized even further. Geely could reuse some of the idled, soon-to-be-vacated capacity. But with all things considered, if Geely does locate here, metro Detroit's auto industry, including its distressed Tiers, some two years or more into the future will still be significantly much less than its sorry state, at present. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3364 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
The Chinese are loaning the USA huge sums of money. They come to the USA car market with deep pockets. Grabbing them in Detroit would be an incredible coup, not to mention a great improvement of intl. airplane service, low-wage Wal-Mart jobs, and improved Chinese buffets. Lowell's redition of the Ren-cen is priceless. You DO have a sense of humor with artist's license. jjaba, LOL on the Westside. | ||
Ray Member Username: Ray Post Number: 643 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 68.42.220.37 |
This would be a huge psychological victory if nothing else. | ||
Alexei289 Member Username: Alexei289 Post Number: 1067 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.61.183.223 |
What about the sites off Grand Blvd?? ARe you forgetting that the Fisher factory and several others are sitting empty, and have more than adequet space and heavy power, (as well as rail and heavy loadbearing roads near the freeways) to more than accomodate them? Why build downtown... when there are more perfectly suited sites where the space will be cheap and user friendly for them. Anyone consider the Packard site?? | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3377 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
Ford Credit organizes their finance program and they lease for a $1.00 a year to Geely, the idled Wixom plant. 3,000 idled Wixom workers build cars for Geely, with Noon hour Chinese Buffet in the benefits program. 2:00pm piss break because of too much OOLONG tea. Ford makes Lincolns and T-birds elsewhere. jjaba, simple solution. | ||
Leyland Member Username: Leyland Post Number: 61 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.74.195.249 |
Far fetched?  | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3400 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
Now we have two Geely logos on the Ren-Cen. How about a big fortune cookie with a G on it? Very funny. Does Canada get one on their side of Ren-Cen too? They love the Chinese. jjaba, eating Fried Rice Special at Victor Lim's. | ||
J32885 Member Username: J32885 Post Number: 24 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 68.41.108.161 |
A Geely dealership on Jefferson near the Rencen (GM HQ) would really look interesting. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3456 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
Free fortune cookies instead of the typical Tootsie Pops suckers and Andes mints on the salesman's desk. jjaba. | ||
Crash_nyc Member Username: Crash_nyc Post Number: 565 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 24.193.163.82 |
"Sign of the times" is right. Man, it's a sad day when the D is looking to a Chinese automaker for salvation. |
