One of the most recent episodes of
This American Life (available in MP3 format free from their website,) talks about the opening of the GM-Toyota NUMMI plant in California in 1984 (meant to build small cars,) and how GM singularly failed to use any of the lessons it should have learned from that experience....
NUMMI | This American Life
Every once in a while I'm tempted with the idea of replacing my wife's Pontiac with the Chevy Volt, but stories like this remind me that the company is singularly undeserving of any more of my money....