
That's an easy one. If car parts and cars in general were built with quality materials and were capable of outlasting my mothers microwave purchased in 1981 then think of how many industries would be sent under! I think GM is doing the right thing by making cars with similar or lesser quality than the toys that come out of cracker jack boxes. It may sound crazy, but the years of experience, years of business training, wisdom, and foresight that flow forth from the executive leadership of GM are the exact reason we can depend on them for being the economic strength they are today! How many jobs would be lost, how many millions of tax dollars would have to be spent to keep them alive if they made quality cars! That's just suicide! Tim, it's because of your gaskets that we live in the thriving machine of the US economy we have today. Bless GM for their endless successful endeavors to maintain job security here in the US.
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Ah, that felt better. My grandpa was a mechanic his entire life and it was absolutely hysterical to hear him rant on about the infantile mentalities that went into vehicle design and engineering. He seemed more bitter about how poorly cars were designed that we was his own divorce!

To top it off, the cars he worked on in his day would outlast anything we have today, three times over!
Of course, I'm sure Bob will get on here and give us all some poetically perfect reason and justification for the LIM gasket design that's indisputable.