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about 1 year ago about General Motors
GM is in a tailspin, and it’s not going to be able to pull out of this one. Why? Because the current GM executive team doesn’t have what it takes. Period.
This spells disaster for GM staff everywhere.
“GM can return to profit without changing its business basics (downsizing does not equal change). It won’t because it can’t. It no longer has the time or the money to do so. But more than that, its management doesn’t have the will.” Article here: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=2543
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Co can be turned around???
submitted by skyking about 1 year ago
GM can be the New GM BUT need New Corp & Union Leadership: Below some ideas: Sell off idle plants, distrib centers nationwide Combine dealerships. Have Luigi Colani design the Gen I Corvette- see his book COLANI Have Mr Colani use his estd Semi Tractor Truck designs to made by GM Trucks Div. Cd is 0.38 efficency alone. Remarket GM Turn some plants into Museums or Malls or Greenspace. Combine plants. Change UAW policies Provide with Ford, Chrysler more Voc Ed Turn over Idle plants to Business seed ventures for: Spaceplanes Robotics EV Cars Hydrogen fuel prod. Miscl other Combine benefits. CUT exec salaries. Have Design Competitions for new vehicles GM expands into: Hovercraft Ground effect vehicles Dble decker Buses Mag Lev RR Trains Light RR Lines aside cars. Develop the AUTOMATRIX system for the US. & UAW Lead or get out of the way. Onward to the Future See FUTURE CARS, Discovery Channel. For all GM workers.
Bob Lutz is great - Unions make them slower
submitted by Rex about 1 year ago
I’ve hated GM’s design and quality forever. I never thougt I’d change my mind. But Bob Lutz, the somewhat recent design chief, is incredible. It wasnt that long ago when GM made the Aztec and put big bubbles of plastic crap on everything coming out of its factories.
Now look at the solstice, the g6, the lucerne, the enclave, the sky etc etc. They are good products design-wise. Their powertrains are still legacy garbage – hopefully that can change over time.
It’s a shame that the company that once said (in teh 80’s?) “we don’t make cars, we make money” finally has devoted big $ to actually creating cars people actually want.
Too bad they have a dumb union strapped around their neck that slows them down, prevents them from being faster in shifting products around (they are severely penalized by unions for shifting work around.)
This means if a car is a dud they are better off keep making the thing at full volume and dump it on the rental car market in mass – rather than limitting production which non-union co.’s can do. Ever wonder why you see so many refrigerator-white gm, fords and chryslers at Hertz, Avis etc? That’s why.
That’s dumb. But that’s what unions force them to do.
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