From: V SCHWARTZ (vsaws@optonline.net)
Date: Sat May 13 2006 - 18:30:49 PDT
It is my personel opinion that the engineers at GM are the ones who screwed
> > We'll be down to Honda, Toyota (Seen the new FJ Cruiser? Its METAL!!!)
up the verhicles to begin with. So I have little sympathy for the lot of
them. I do feel sory for the mass of hourly workers that will loose
everything they erer worked for. Engineers could have been developing more
effecient vehicles half a century ago. but they choose to keepselling junk
that would not last the length of the loan. so Mr J Q. public would have to
buy another piece of junk. So I guess you are part of the problem Dave. My
regrets to Albert for the OT rant. Vinny
----- Original Message -----
From: "MV" <MV@dc9.tzo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] General Motors to End Hummer H1 Production
> > Volvo, S&S, Dodge, and a few others like Volvo.
>
> It sure would be nice if some of these were actually American companies.
> Well I think S&S is, but that hardly counts. Being an ex-Detroiter and an
> ex-GM engineer just makes all of these bunglings hard to swallow. They
> were screwed up when I left in '82 and it's been a downhill slide for GM
> ever since. In the late 70's GM believed that they were making close to
> 60% of the cars sold in the US. They didn't advertise that fact and
> actually skewed the numbers that were reported to avoid anti-trust
> actions. They were seriously concerned about the Government breaking up
> the company. Not much later some real bozo's (bean counters) took control
> of the company and began to drive it into the ground.
>
> Dave
>
> Ryan Gill wrote:
>> At 10:39 AM -0400 5/13/06, MV wrote:
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>>> GM - a bunch of idiots trying to make things.
>>>
>>> Their decision making ability is dismal.
>>>
>>> Example: GM Heavy truck division sold to Volvo - now Volvo truck - uh...
>>> have you seen just a couple of Volvo trucks on the road?
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>> Volvos been doing the Military Truck thing in Europe. Give them another
>> 5-10 yeras, and they'll be shooting for US contracts soon.
>>
>>>
>>> If only these guys had a clue about how to run a company. Unfortunately
>>> all of the guys who actually grew General Motors and Ford are dead.
>>> Apparently now the only guys in control are bean counters and since they
>>> don't make beans, they are screwed.
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