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The Sky Has Indeed Fallen…
Yes, the once greatest business in the world, longtime Fortune 1 Company (or Fortune 2 when Exxon/Mobil was a bit bloated for its own good), granter of prosperity to wherever its factories sat, builder of dreams (or their automotive analogs), the force behind suburbia, malls, the drive-in movie and expressways – bankrupt and getting reorganized [...]
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Onbrands emailed me a thoughtful response to my previous posting, along with a challenge:
…what would you say that Big Three need to do to win consumers back? Let’s say you are the CEO of GM, what is your plan to win consumers back?
Well, let’s assume that GM can be saved. Probably the biggest issue with [...]
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I was thinking recently over all the stories I had heard over the years why people chose Import brands (and if they were indeed imported, so much the better). And I counted nearly thirty different explanations, each one talking about a car they had five to twenty-five years ago that had something so wrong that [...]
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It’s kind of sad. I would not be shocked to find out that the Obama GM/Chrysler “Rescue (yeah,right)” plan was a sting set up so the creditors of the car companies get all their stuff while the Stockholders get nothing and the Unions get EVERYTHING (retirement and insurance, as well as other things) LOOTED from [...]
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I’ve started wondering if there’s an upper limit to what the above mentioned fuels can cost before industrialized society falls apart.
We’ve gone through this stuff that’s happened with fuel prices twice in the past thirty-plus years. First in 1978-1980 (which I must say passed by my head at the time, as I stopped living within [...]
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Understanding Gereral Motors
General Motors is an odd duck of a corporation. It has always been a bit unwieldy and too big for itself. And while it can be argued that there are bigger companies and groups that work well enough “despite their size,” I’m arguing from the angle that a marriage can be too big if the [...]
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G.M. Shifts Focus to Small Cars in Sign of Sport Utility Demise
That’s right, friends, General Motors, the champion of the SUV and owner of the Hummer, is now closing down some SUV factories and working to produce smaller cars!
Thing is, seems every time GM (or ANY USA domestic producer) tries to produce smaller cars they [...]
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