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Old 04-04-2010, 02:11 AM   #5 (permalink)
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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...)
Oh yeah, just like Old Mech has said. The show also said that by the 2000's, the "NUMMI Generation" (managers that had learned from NUMMI) had the critical mass they needed to change at least parts of the company, but it was too late.

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