One Honda Fit owner got an unexpected surprise when they came back to their car after parking at GM’s Wentzville Assembly Center. The automaker has “domestic only” parking lots and this Honda was in one of them. This practice dates back decades.
First posted on a private Facebook group and then noticed by TireMeetsRoad, the ticket is likely just a warning but we’ll come back to that. As we’ve documented in years past, GM has designated parking areas at its Wentzville Assembly Plant.
There’s one for vehicles from General Motors, then another for domestic brands, and finally a third for foreign brands. The last two just happen to be further from the entrance than the GM-only one. Stories like this one seem fairly rare and it might be that drivers simply play by the rules because GM is clearly still giving out citations for breaking them.
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The original poster simply said, “You might get a parking ticket from GM for parking in the domestic only lot with a foreign car.” Notably, the lots were originally built by the United Auto Workers Union and they still own them. That’s why they can set up these rules and then cite drivers that break them.
In this case, we get the feeling that this is only a warning as there’s no visible fine on the ticket and it closely matches one we’ve seen in the past. In that case, a GM employee wrongly ticketed a Tesla as they didn’t realize that it was American-made. That ticket looked identical to this one and was a confirmed warning. This practice dates back to at least the mid-1980s – and while it might seem a little weird in 2023 to separate cars coming from domestic and foreign rivals, we guess it is what it is.
