And that's it for the 1993 Buick LeSabre Limited door panel removal job. Total time: 30 minutes. Pain In The Ass Quotient (PITAQ): 4 on a scale of 1 to 10, mostly due to difficult-to-find fasteners and easily-broken plastic tabs. Number of broken parts: four. As patriotic Americans, Shawn and I were really rooting for the Buick to take the win here, but we ended up being quite disappointed. The culprit here appears to be The General's focus on maximizing ease of initial assembly and cutting costs on not-visible-to-buyer components; you're free to blame this problem on one or more of the following:
A: Featherbedding union slobs and their Kumbaya-singing liberal enablers among the Coastal Elites, with help from those goddamn socialist governments in Germany and Japan and their taxpayer-funded health care, forcing Detroit to cut corners in order to pay exorbitant salaries and benefits to uneducated schmucks who would benefit greatly from a dose of Harsh Economic Reality (conservative talk radio version).

B: Wall Street's obsession with short-term shareholder gain and the generally exploitative nature of American-style capitalism (NPR version).

C: The Peter Principle in full fucking effect at all levels of management throughout the American automotive industry going back to at least the middle 1960s (my version).

D. The Trilateral Commission, with backing from the Federal Reserve, seeking to destabilize the American economic base, in order to bring us closer to the day when the shadow government located beneath Denver International Airport can ship all dissenters to camps- even now being built- in the Utah desert (conspiracy theorist version).