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Automotive News & Views What if you were in charge of GM?
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Replying to: tlong (Nov 06, 2008 10:02 pm) GM only has to focus on great design and products for Chevy and Caddy. Other brands get new badges and nothing else. GM consolidates brand HQs into the Chevy division, since they're only rebadges of Chevies. Take that idea a little farther. A town about 20 miles from me has a Chevy dealer and a Pontiac/Buick/GMC dealer about one mile apart. There are probably hundreds of other towns, suburbs with similar dealer proximities. Would not Chevy dealers bring lawsuits on GM for violating some kind of exclusivity arrangements for "territory" infringement? Aren't dealers given a territory in which to operate?
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Nov 07, 2008 7:41 am) I will use the bailout money to buy out workers that can not be part of the new company so they will have enough funds to re-train, including supplier companies that are affected by the massive changes I propose. The U.A.W. would go away under my plan as well as guaranteed pension costs and health care for retired since B.O. will fix health care in the U.S. while I rebuild the Auto Industry and Chevy and Cadillac would emerge when the smoke cleared as the twin divisions. I do not expect any bonus to be paid until every cent of the loans from the Government are paid and profits EXCEED the industry benchmarks. Market share would drop as production is reduced to dry up all of the excess capacity in the new/used market. After 3 years, no old platforms would exist as they are know today. Minimum efficiency specifications for both divisions would be 20 MPG City fuel economy and average would be 35 MPG COMBINED target 2011. Chevy Corvette Camaro Malibu Caravan Jeep - 4 variants Tahoe WOW (my pet economy car beating Civic price and Economy) Cadillac Alpha (3-Series Fighter with Economy, Mid-Level and High Performance) Alpha CUV - Eldorado is the name for the alpha's CTS - Would be changed to Electra SRX - Changed to Park Avenue DTS - Changed to DeVille Escalade Regards, OW
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Nov 07, 2008 7:41 am) I guess you could say that GM is already "rebadging" cars, as there is a company in Austrailia that will sell a kit to "convert" your G8 to a Holden Commodore for $4,000. All it is is a body kit that bolts on. This tells me that the easiest way is to just built quality cars that appeal to everybody. The Malibu, G6, and Aura all sit on the same platform, just as the Toyota Camry, Highlander, Venza, Avalon, and their Lexus variants do. I'd be willing to bet that that is where the biggest savings comes from, in that all these cars can be built on the same assembly line using the same basic structural architecture. I believe that if the G6 were as good as the Malibu, and the Aura were sold at more than just 500 dealerships, they could sell close to, if not more than, 1 million of these 3 per year total. But the G6 can't hold a candle to the Malibu, and the Aura is "hidden" at the few Saturn dealers that exist, so I guess they'll have to settle with half that amount, with 2/3-3/4 of those sale being Malibus. THAT'S where bad planning comes in. |
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Replying to: circlew (Nov 07, 2008 8:01 am) 
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Nov 07, 2008 8:04 am) Therefore, I would not want to run GM. I am not sure the manager can say, that they produce the best product they could possibly create. They're not. I would do some house cleaning if I were in there, that can be good or bad. lol I would get rid of a few models/brands. Keep my most quality cars, and use them as examples, start from there. I do wish them luck, I think they'll pull out of this, but they still need to consider their quality. |
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Replying to: georgecavalier (Nov 06, 2008 2:02 pm) |
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Nov 07, 2008 8:04 am) Dr. Obama will operate and Dr. Nancy will assist. BTW, even I could not have screwed up GM more than it is today. I'm not that greedy or blind!  Regards, OW
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Replying to: circlew (Nov 07, 2008 8:01 am)
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Replying to: circlew (Nov 07, 2008 11:43 am)
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Nov 07, 2008 7:41 am) With my idea the Pontiac dealer next to the Chevy dealer is selling Pontiac badged cars. He can choose not to switch to Chevy, since there's a Chevy dealer next door. If you go to the Chevy dealer you see a Malibu. If you go to the next door Pontiac dealer you see the same exact car, it just says Pontiac G6 on it! GM basically rebadges exact vehicles and then all dealers get product, yet GM only has to support two "real" brands, as the cost of new badges is minimal. It's not like a slightly reworked Acadia is all that different than a Traverse, or an Enclave, etc. So everybody gets the Traverse, but the GMC dealer sells it as an Acadia. I don't see why it violates any agreements about competition, since many of the existing rebadges are still minimally different anyway. Just don't make them different at all, except the badges! Of course none of this matters given today's financial announcements unless GM gets government bailout money soon, since that appears to be their only hope. Let's hope this really leads to some RADICAL, not evolutionary, restructuring. |
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