# GM's Bankrupcy 2009 - Interesting Queries

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/gms-bankrupcy-2009-interesting-queries/56317>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [October 13, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gms-bankrupcy-2009-interesting-queries/56317 "2010-10-13T11:26:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![James\_B\_Bleeker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/james_b_bleeker/32/2051_2.png) [@James\_B\_Bleeker](https://community.cartalk.com/u/James_B_Bleeker)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gms-bankrupcy-2009-interesting-queries/56317/1 "2010-10-13T11:26:07Z")

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When account is taken of:  
  
  
  
 (1) General Motors’ share of Consumer Reports’ worst-car list dipped from 43% in 1992 to 41% in 2010,  
  
  
  
 (2) At this rate of dipping, GM’s quality will match that of the industry’s leaders, Honda and Toyota, in about 400 years,  
  
  
  
 (3) For more than a quarter of a century, Consumer Reports has been reporting on GM’s diminutive reliability,  
  
  
  
 The interesting questions are:  
  
  
  
 (1) Why wasn’t GM’s 2009 bankruptcy its 4th or 5th rather than its first?  
  
  
  
 (2) Why has the U.S. consumer taken so long to cut GM’s market share to 19%?

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**Author:** ![AL5000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@AL5000](https://community.cartalk.com/u/AL5000)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gms-bankrupcy-2009-interesting-queries/56317/2 "2010-10-13T12:10:48Z")

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Equally interesting:  
(1) Why do you always assume these queries are interesting and name them as such?  
(2) Why the constant GM bashing, thinly veiled as intellectual discussion?