Posted on 07/20/2008 5:24:31 PM PDT by decimon
GM showed a photo of the Cruze to employees during a TV presentation.
Workers caught a brief glimpse of the car coming to the Lordstown plant, but General Motors still is keeping the Chevrolet Cruze under wraps.
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He noted that the Cruze promises success because GM is powering the car with a new 1.4-liter, turbocharged engine that is to have fuel efficiency of 45 mpg.
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I doubt it.
remember when gm announced the new division of saturn, and they started designing the symbol?
meanwhile, toyota announced it too needed a new symbol.
gm took 5 years and toyota took 1 year.
which is best? obviously the toyota.
saturn was to be independent, but how long did it take before the managers at gm pulled it back into the pig trough.
Guess it's just a matter of taste, I don't have a problem with it at all. It looks like many other contemporary small cars in the same price range.
This guy has a video with his engine in a full size pickup truck but it doesn’t go fast enough yet but maybe someday.
check this out
http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Inventors/JosephNewman/index.html
bump...for later read
Wagoneer, the head of GM said that GM would meet any Japonese quality standards. Not lead, not beat, not pull ahead, but wait, be passive and then react.]
What a loser. But I remember Smith when asked why GM didn’t build an affordible quality car and he said they did, a three year old Buick.
Nice.
I spotted Bill Ford as a metrosexual loser, ten years ago. He was saying that Ford would plant grass on the roofs of their factories.
What a putz.
I used to buy American, but got sick and tired of cars that could not outlast their financing. In fact, the financing is the hook that American manufacturers use to grab you by the short hairs. As long as the car is worth less than what you owe on it (and that's going to happen all the way until sometime in the last year of payments), you're stuck with the thing, and have no choice other than to have it repaired with expensive parts, often by their dealer network of service centers. They maybe break even on the car at the sale, but will make it up like crazy over the next six years.
I got tired of being treated like a sheep, and went Asian. They still take a bit of pride in what they make. American auto manufacturers stopped doing that a long time ago, if they ever did.
Anyway, the guest was Joel Manby, CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment, who was one of the original “Saturn Eight”. Phenomenal guy. His take was that GM is always only about profit. Before customer, product, quality, and the “experience” (which was Saturn's “hook” from the beginning). Saturn got subsumed by the dominant GM profit culture some time in the late 90’s.
w edwards deming was condemned and ignored by american auto manufacturers for his ideas about quality in manufacturing.
the japanese invited him to show them how to manufacture quality cars.
here’s a link to the ceo of toyota thanking deming:
yeah, that’s about the right time frame.
gm management just had to grab saturn back and control it.
saturn was supposed to be a break from the old cookie cutter.
see this link on toyota thanking w edwards deming the american who innovated quality in autos.
the japanese paid him for his ideas:
Thanks for the link. Six Sigma and beyond BUMP!
Chevy’s symbol is huge. It has gotten larger over the years.....or is it just me? I think it is big and ugly!
Great post, Hunter112! I couldn’t agree more!
I have a chainsaw, but it won’t be pretty. First things first, You have to fit in it, or you will be miserable.
Or a stupid name, for that matter?
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