Amen to that The name of article implies a connection with the banking crisis That link is spurious American car manufacturers make an inferior product and are massively burdened with huge retired worker costs and strong unions As a result they have not been profitable and the recent petrol prices and now the funding crisis due to the banking crisis have brought them to the edge sooner than they would otherwise have got there Foreign car manufacturers are not in this position and do not have the same history and it is absolutely wrong to lump them into this article