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There are arguably four bases upon which a General Motors bailout may have been justified. They are:

1. High product quality,

2. Improvement of product quality,

3. Protection of jobs, or

4. Minimal injure to others.

Product Quality

A brief look, perchance even a glance, at the quality of General Motors’ vehicles suffices to show that it falls short, or very short, of justifying an intervention in the markets by a governmental unit. GM’s overall 2009 Auto Reliability GPA for vehicles from the model years 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 is 1.43, a D by letter grade. This places GM’s overall reliability underneath all of the following for the same model years:

Honda Motor Company with a GPA of 3.56 and an Auto Reliability Grade of A

Toyota Motor Corporation with 3.46, a B

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. ‘s Subaru division with 2.98, B

Hyundai Motor Company with 2.77, a B

Mazda Motor Corporation with 2.69, a B

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation with 2.67, a B

Nissan Motor Company with 2.51, a B

Suzuki Motor Corporation with 2.22, a C

Ford Motor Company with 2.18, a C

Kia Motors Corporation with 2.14, a C

BMW AG with 2.05, a C

Daimler AG with 1.70, a C

Volkswagen AG with a 1.56, a C

Jaguar Cars Ltd. With a 1.50, a C.

Improvement of Product Quality

An examination of General Motors’ reliability standing in 1988 versus it is standing in 2009 likewise gives evidence of an absence of justification for a governmental intervention in the market. When 1988 and 2009 manufacturer lists are fixed to those automobile companies supplying the requisite info for both years, we have the following standings:

1988

1. Toyota

2. Mazda

3. Honda

4. Nissan

5. Daimler

6. BMW

7. Mitsubishi

8. Fuji

9. General Motors

10. Volkswagen

11. Ford

12. Chrysler

2009

1. Honda

2. Toyota

3. Fuji

4. Mazda

5. Mitsubishi

6. Nissan

7. Ford

8. BMW

9. Daimler

10. Volkswagen

11. General Motors

12. Chrysler

From the lists it may be seen that General Motors dropped from ninth place in 1988 to eleventh place (second place from the bottom) in 2009, a decline in reliability standing, not an improvement.

(The 1988 list is based on the Auto Reliability Percentrank; the 2009 list is based on the 2009 Auto Reliability GPA for model years 2005-2008.)

Protection of Jobs

A finish liquidation of General Motors would likely have meant a de minimis net loss of jobs, for assorted reasons. First, General Motors’ share of the U.S. new car market had dwindled to 22% by 2008, and it is unit sales were a meager 2.9 million. Second, from 2006 to 2008, U.S. new car sales had declined by 3.3 million, leaving a 2008 excess production capacity exceeding all of GM’s 2008 sales. Third, Ford Motor Company’s unit sales had declined 0.8 million from 2006 to 2008 on a 2 share point drop in it is U.S. new car market share. This, coupled with a loss of 5 portion points in it is market percentage from 2002 to 2006, left Ford alone with an excess production capacity sufficient to have filled much, if not the bulk, of any lost production capacity caused by a GM liquidation. In short, rehires and new hires by Ford may have covered most of the occupation losses occasioned by a GM liquidation.

Minimal Harm to Others

The data suggest that the hurt caused by a GM bailout was not minimal, but arguably egregious.

The prompt victim of the bailout was Ford Motor Company – it is executives, it is employees, and it is shareholders.

Ford suffered two ways. First, bailing out GM meant that the bulk of Ford workers laid off in the 2000s were not rehired. Second, the bailout of GM served to penalize Ford for it is closely two decades of quality betterment and to reward GM for doing so little to improve quality that whatsoever improvement, if any, it may have done failed to raise it is reliability standing (it fell as noted above) or reduce it is share of Consumer Reports’ worst cars, save for the meager drop from 43% of CR’s worst in 1992 to 41% in 2010.

Although Ford may be the prompt victim of GM’s bailout, the most injured may prove to be the naïve or ill-informed U.S. consumer. This is aid made evident by contrasting GM’s current reliability with that of Ford.

GM’s 2010 Auto Reliability GPA for the most recent model years – 2006 to 2009 – is 1.25 versus Ford’s 2.21, so on intermediate Ford vehicles have fewer, or far fewer, reported severe problems. Furthermore, Ford has three cars that have splendid reliability for these model years. They are:

The front-wheel-drive Lincoln MKZ, Zephyr with a Reliability GPA of 4.00,

The 4-cylinder Mercury Milan with a GPA of 4.00,

The V6, 4-wheel-drive Ford Fusion with a GPA of 3.75.

By contrast, there is no GM-engineered vehicle with a 3-or-more-year info history for model years 2006 to 2009 that has a 2010 GPA above 2.25.

And as noted above, Ford Motor Company, by reason of it is loss in new car market part in the 2000s, had the biggest capacity to fill an increased demand prompted by a GM demise. Consequently, the Bush-Obama irruptive bailout that prevented the liquidation of General Motors may have both enforced low quality productions on the U.S. new car market and fixed sales of higher quality products.

In summary, there appears to have been little justification for the 2008-to-2009 U.S. furnished bailout of General Motors Corporation. However, it may be argued that former Ford Motor Company laborers who had lost their jobs prior to 2008 likely had mentally and in an emotional manner adjusted to the improbability of returning to work at Ford by the end of 2008, while a liquidation of GM would have caused an prompt psychological distress, among those whose livelihoods were linked rather altogether to GM, that would have exceeded the aggregate gain – financial and aroused – from re-employing past Ford laborers and the aggregate long-term hurt to the U.S. buyer and the U.S. economy. While it may be difficult to evaluate the merits of the argument, the argument is likely strong sufficient to make the characterization of the government bailout as an act of idiocy or stupidity inaccurate. The bailout decision may, or may not, have been unwise, but it seems safe to say that it was neither idiotic nor stupid.