GM: Still Making the Same Mistakes

mookiemookie · 08-14-09, 01:10 PM

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GM, you introduce cars far too long before they can be bought. You make promises you can't keep. And then, instead of building value and driving margins up to where GM returns to profitability, you're once again diminishing how customers view your products by constantly finding ways to drive the prices down.

http://www.businessweek.com/print/li...813_397576.htm

SteamWake · 08-14-09, 01:15 PM

What did you expect Goverment Motors to run effectively?

You expected Change?

Platapus · 08-14-09, 01:26 PM

No change, just another reason we should let the American Auto industry die according to the rules of the market.

An increasing number of people don't want to buy American cars!

The government should not and really can not get involved.

Lee Iacocca gave us some good advice in 1982. He repeats it at the end of this clip

I took his advice and I, evidently, am not the only one.

SteamWake · 08-14-09, 01:33 PM

Ford is doing okay... not great but there in the black.

AVGWarhawk · 08-14-09, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by SteamWake

Ford is doing okay... not great but there in the black.

I considered a Ford. I have one now(wife's truck). Nothing in their lineup got my attention really. I like the new Taurus but it still has that rental car stigmata to me. I purchased a VW Passat a week ago.

Platapus · 08-14-09, 01:42 PM

Stigma not Stigmata. If a Ford Taurus would have Stigmata that would be newsworthy.

SteamWake · 08-14-09, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I considered a Ford. I have one now(wife's truck). Nothing in their lineup got my attention really. I like the new Taurus but it still has that rental car stigmata to me. I purchased a VW Passat a week ago.

The one that caught fire when you drove it off the lot?

08-14-09, 01:15 PM	#2
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	What did you expect Goverment Motors to run effectively? You expected Change? __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

08-14-09, 01:26 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	No change, just another reason we should let the American Auto industry die according to the rules of the market. An increasing number of people don't want to buy American cars! The government should not and really can not get involved. Lee Iacocca gave us some good advice in 1982. He repeats it at the end of this clip I took his advice and I, evidently, am not the only one. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

08-14-09, 01:33 PM	#4
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Ford is doing okay... not great but there in the black. __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

08-14-09, 01:42 PM	#6
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Stigma not Stigmata. If a Ford Taurus would have Stigmata that would be newsworthy. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.