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THE DEMISE OF THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE



 
 
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Old June 4th 09, 11:32 AM posted to rec.autos.misc
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Default THE DEMISE OF THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE

Say goodbye to both the Chrysler and GM brands. We can watch the death
spiral for each. Ford is not far behind. Both are set to share the fate of
Nash, Hudson, Kaiser, Studebaker, Packard, Willys and many other DEFUNCT
American brands. You will now be able to buy your HUMMERS built in CHINA.
Buick soon to follow. While GM is hysterically looking to SELL Pontiac and
Saturn -- GOOD LUCK. That's like trying to sell the Titanic on April 15th
of 1912!


How many people WERE (soon to be PAST TENSE) employed in the auto industry?
I listened to the retardate from GM speak following the BANKRUPTCY. He said
NOTHING - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to indicate that he actually KNEW why GM
failed. Not a fukkking thing! Not a clue as to why his cars were ****! Not
a CLUE of what could be done for GM. The asshole doesn't even know for sure
how many wheels or on a car! He TALKS the "politically correct" BULL****
about going "GREEN." That's NOT the problem asshole. ****TY CARS is the
problem. While GM is a textbook company from the HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
manual, excuse me if I reiterate that the FASTEST way to bankrupt a company
is to allow some JERK with a Harvard MBA run the company. Harvard's model
is accelerated business FAILURE. Look at what HARVARD recommends and do the
EXACT OPPOSITE... They haven't a fukking CLUE.

GM needs a CAR man at the top. There once was a time when to rise in a
company you had to start at the bottom and prove yourself. Now these
DICKHEADS come out of HARVARD and become instant CEO's... GM has had a
succession of IDIOTS at the helm who didn't even have a DRIVER'S LICENSE.

What's the problem? When you have 23,877 different Chevrolet models? NONE of
them selling very well. How many different assembly lines is that? What
happens when neither the Malibu or Cobalt sell well???? Do you retool those
lines to make the Impala which is? Or do you retool to make a Camaro that
isn't selling at all? GM has suffered from the HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
psychology of industrial hysteria. Throw lots of **** at the wall hoping
that something will stick. ANYTHING - God PLEASE - let ONE turd stick to the
wall.

GM needed to go back and look at itself. Look at Al Sloan. What made GM
successful? They had a GREAT Cadillac. Not a Cadillac and 45 Cheveys with
the Cadillac badge. They had a big and a small Buick. The BIG Buick shared
the Cadillac frame, the small Buick shared the frame from the Pontiac. But
NOT 67 gazillion different Buicks. There were essentially TWO Pontiacs. And
there was the cheap and the fancy Chevy. NOT 87 TRILLION different cars.

So what went wrong at GM and the other companies? They were following the
HARVARD business model. "MAKE IT CHEAPER AND BUILD THEM FASTER" and if they
are **** - tell the customer to go fukk themselves. Harvard BOTTOM LINE 101.
When the foreign companies had something that seemed to be catching on..
MAKE OUR OWN VERSION OF IT. Hence when the VW bug started to catch on make a
piece of **** called the "CORVAIR." Ah the HARVARD model make **** look like
THEIR good stuff! But whatever you do MAKE IT ****! Watching GM - - TRY to
build a TOYOTA for the past 20 years has been a live sitcom. And the plan
is to DO MORE OF IT! LOTS AND LOTS more of the SAME. But "CALL" it "GREEN!"
That's the ticket, let's SAY we are "GREEN" now. Let's take that 9,000 pound
Caddy and put a 1.2 liter 4 cylinder engine in it! NOW we GOT GREEN! 40 MPG
at 40 MPH (it's TOP SPEED) Zero to 40 is just under a week!

Or - let's make golf carts and tell folks it's our NEW Buick! Oh yeah GM is
on a new road.......... RIGHT! How many TRILLIONS will the government have
to throw at GM to keep it going? This is hilarious - GM on WELFARE - and it
will work JUST AS WELL as WELFARE always has. Just keep throwing OUR money
down that BLACK HOLE.








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