You can trick your whip all you want, but GM says that car is still theirs, no matter what you’ve paid. In a hearing this week, General Motors attorney Harry Lightsey said that purchasing and paying off your GM vehicle is a license agreement and not ownership.
The U.S Copyright Office is holding a hearing on whether anyone other than the vehicle’s manufacturer has the right to alter the that car’s copyrighted software. With modern design being what it is, this means almost altering anything about the vehicle.
Mechanics and private owners are saying they need to be allowed to make repairs on their vehicles to keep them running or maintain their business. But GM is saying that anyone unauthorized altering anything about the vehicle could create problems with the software and endanger the driver. This sounds more like a business ploy on the part of GM to hold a monopoly on vehicle repairs.
Read more about GM’s position on page 2.
GM is a liberal company! Won’t own or drive one
GM needed a bail out money I WILL NEVER OWN OR DO BUSINESS WITH ANYONE WHO ABUSES THEIR CUSTOMERS BY GREED AND NEED BAIL OUT MONEY!! FORD IS THE 1st and ITS ALL MY FAMILY WILL DRIVE & OWN!!
Get the manufacturer’s certificate of ownership when you buy it.
Well then if they still “own it” then why don’t they pay for repairs on “there” cars?
Sounds like GM endorses globalism I work on my own cars when I can and pick my own mechanics when I can’t. I will by anything else from GM again of that is the case.
Skjor Dykeman sorry
Etta Nappier Rubin mine just turned 17 with 300000 on it and runs good
GM doesn’t truly own it’s business, the US citizens bought it because it was to big to fail. Just because we Americans got are originally investment back, doesn’t mean the CEO’s own it.
If one does not Hold the Manufactures Statement of Origin(MSO), then one does not legally own a vehicle. The State where the vehicle was sold holds the MSO, the Buyer only gets from that State a “Certificate” of Ownership. NO MSO. NO OWNERSHIP….. and just try to get the MSO from your State.
I like how they twisted that logic, using the same game not so appealing now .. lol