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Old 04-04-2010, 12:20 AM   #4 (permalink)
Clev
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Originally Posted by cfg83 View Post
jkp1187 -

I am so sad for NUMMI. The story reinforces my perception that the foreign/domestic quality gap is much closer today than in the past. It makes me wonder if GM could have avoided bankruptcy in 2008 if it's portfolio didn't have so many gas-guzzlers.
The gas guzzling SUVs were high margin and probably kept the company alive for longer than it should have lasted. The undoing of GM was its decades of poor quality. (Seriously, listen to the show. Hearing the workers describe the kind of crap work that went into those cars...)
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