personally, and this is just the canadian in me talkin..... but I think the media has blown all of this resession crap waayyyy out pf porportion. THese guys feed into our fears of losing companies, mergers and instability. Auto mergers aren't going to happen, how many attempts to merge with Chrysler and then back out? c'mon it's a marketing ploy to fuel the economy.

If you think about Henry Ford, he made a company and ran it through a hard economic time, and he weatherd the storms. Now very true here with the investors and such, I say the manufacturer open the doors like a local airline here in Calgary and offer shares to the public, get public dollars into a company to maintain stability. It would boost economy and allow for a more controlled platform. This way the big wigs aren't lining their pockets and screwing a company over.

Parts on the other hand may become scarse, but majority of our parts are interchangable with other platforms.