GM's Latest Mistake

By cortex on October 2, 2006.

Just when you thought GM might be learning from its past mistakes, they go and do something really stupid like this...

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I don't care much for links that lead to sites that require registration.

Sorry, link fixed. I now link directly to Sean Hannity website, and not to the article about Hannity...

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