While Toyota was designing the Prius, GM was designing the Pontiac Aztec.
While Honda was selling Civics, GM was selling the Malibu.
When gas was $4.00 a gallon, GM tried to sell you the Suburban and Toyota & Honda sold us fuel efficient cars.
The Union Thugs are not the ones who made the above poor decisions.
“While Toyota was designing the Prius, GM was designing the Pontiac Aztec.
While Honda was selling Civics, GM was selling the Malibu.
When gas was $4.00 a gallon, GM tried to sell you the Suburban and Toyota & Honda sold us fuel efficient cars.
The Union Thugs are not the ones who made the above poor decisions.”
Actually, this is all true. GM has historically been too slow to react to the market. A recent example is the HHR which is a dead ringer for the Chrysler PT Cruiser. When did GM produce its copy of the popular PT? Why, it was the same year that Chrysler announced plans to end production of the PT due to slowing sales.
While the executives at GM are surely to blame for these errors, the UAW has been right there.
Having said all that, I still think its scary for the US Government to step in and influence the removal of a corporation’s CEO. There’s something very scary about that.