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Old 11-04-2008, 12:47 PM   #56 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
This is why I have contempt for those who tell me Ford and GM are dying of "bad management." You cannot tell me anyone who could do it better.
Honda? Toyota? Subaru? What other foreign manufacturers have assembly plants in the US? They seem to have found ways to deal with the costs, and (presumably) make a profit on US operations.

Granted that conditions for the US automakers were not exactly easy, their management still seems to have been engaged in a 40-year exercise in denying reality. We kept hearing them endlessly chanting their mantra "Americans don't want small cars" while steadily losing market share to foreign automakers which sold - guess what? - mostly smaller cars. They kept on producing ever-larger & more fuel-hungry products, while ignoring all the evidence showing that major fuel price increases were inevitable. They painted themselves into the corner. If that's not bad management, what is?
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