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Automotive News & Views What if you were in charge of GM?
874 messages, Last post on Oct 28, 2009 at 10:20 AM
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Based on the lack of quality of my 2002 Impala - latest failure is a blown head gasket at 50K - I have a suggestion. GM should stop concentrating on getting the headlights to turn on and off automatically and try building an engine that does not tear itself apart at 1/4 the mileage it should attain.
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Replying to: sclarkemeister (Jun 25, 2009 5:42 pm) Good point. I would get some strategy. No dilution due to branding. No dilution due to 3 kinds of hybrids, all worse than the Prius. Instead of diluting with rebadges, stay focused. GM's history is the history of multiplying mediocrity. Contrast that with Honda - stay smaller, focus, don't try to be everything to everybody, focus on quality (although I think they are struggling a bit with that of late). So for GM, 0 - get a strategy. Focus! 1 - they should dump Buick everywhere except China 2 - they should only sell commercial trucks at GMC. No overlaps with Chevy or Buick 3 - as mentioned above, REALLY focus on a few great engines. Focus on a high quality interior. Focus on refined controls. Focus on reliability. Keep improving the cars through a monitoring program - anything that fails early or reliably, fix the part and apply it to the production models. |
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Replying to: blckislandguy (Jun 25, 2009 5:34 pm) You raise a good point about leading by example here. I think to be honest Rick was more of a fall guy than anything else, a convient target of anger. Granted the jet thing was arrogant, but under his leadership GM did produce a larger array of more competative cars than they had previously (malibu, C6 Vette, CTS etc..) so he had at least pointed GM in right direction. GM was a huge ship and it takes a lot to turn it arround. I want to give you a different take on the diverstiy issue you raised. One of GM's problems in the past is that too many people who get to the top of company are from finance and accounting. There need to be more people on the Board of Directors coming up from engineering. Every Honda President has been promoted from the engineering division and it shows in much of what they offer the customer. |
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Replying to: sclarkemeister (Jun 25, 2009 5:42 pm) Dex-Cool is most likely the cause of your head gasket failure, as well as many other documented cooling system failures in GM engines. |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jun 23, 2009 5:32 pm) |
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Jun 24, 2009 1:26 pm) As was mentioned by another member, GM makes money in every market except the North American market. NO reason GM can't continue to sell Buicks in China. It's not like they have the same Buicks as we do.
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Replying to: dtownfb (Jun 26, 2009 9:39 am)
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Replying to: colloquor (Jun 25, 2009 5:05 am) |
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 26, 2009 9:43 am) Why are the better cars for GM (and Ford) built for the overseas markets and not for the US? Those Buicks should be here in the US
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I wouldn't partner with IKEA. Something like this might happen:  See more Car Pictures at CarSpace.com"> Some assembly required -- makes you wonder how many flat packs it would take to get something like that home. Yes, I know that's a VW Golf that is disassembled in the above picture. I'm just sayin'. |
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