[dfwgator]

It was a better world before bean counters started becoming CEOs.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The Ford Taurus was an innovative and good car for the money.

It was Ford's best seller. Simple, ordinary car. Then the "consultants" and young Turks killed it. When they realized their mistake, they tried to sell a rebadged Volvo as a "Taurus". Nope. Nada. No one bought it: neither the car nor the hype.

Did Toyota ever kill the Camry? No. They still make it, and it is as successful as ever.

[No name given]

Rest In Peace, Don.

[ClearCase_guy]

A mechanical engineer with a zeal for quality

What a concept. Well, America doesn't need his kind any more!! Our captains of industry today are all people who Didn't Earn It.

[GaryCrow]

He was from the era when the people that ran car companies were engineers, not business school grads. Today engineers are treated as expendable temporary employees at U.S. carmakers while bean counters collect their bonuses for cutting quality to the bone, with predictable results.

It's a cancer that has almost destroyed Boeing also. The Harvard MBA school of management infests them to the point that the bosses almost don't know that they're actually supposed to be building airplanes, just that they're supposed to cut costs to the bone. The latest CEO is stepping down because of their recent screwups and it doesn't appear they've learned anything. Their top candidate to replace him is their female chief operating officer with a bachelor's in accounting and a MBA, not a hint of engineering experience in her 30 year career. I doubt she knows which end of an airplane points into the wind but somehow she's supposed to fix an airplane company.