Simple reason, American workers too lazy and imprecise, so there4 too expensive, General Motors is looking for cheaper labour. And since all the sweat shops were too busy wit Nike, levi's and Diesel, they shopping around.
They tried to get them built in Southeast Asia first but evry country they approached, would receive a very polite letter from Honda and then from Toyota and then Kia and then Hyundai, this letter stated,
"You wan make big ugry gwai-lo/gaijin bushy mobirr an we make sho sho our goo flends honorable Sony-san and LG-san no gib anybody cheap appliance an we also move all manufacture away from yo po' Asian a**, no ricey ricey :wink: , no jobby jobby 8O . Verry po' po' :cry:.
So don f***y wit us ok flend :twisted: "
So our charitable frends at General Motors thawt,
"Why gosh darnit, Africa's full o' po' negras innit? Why they close enuff to them slanty-eyed gooks to pop togetherr a whole ranch full o' ourr prime auto mobille's quicker an Mexican tapwater thru a New York Jew! Hyuk! Well Cleatus, whadin John Wayne (God Bless His Soul)'s name arr we still doin herr, lets get us sum po' negras a sweatin an a howlin' Why my bull-whip aint even had a chance to get dusty yet. YEEHAAAUUUU!!!!!"
Hey, I'm sure we'll get H2's real cheap.... they'll only make a 700% markup off us.