He probably wrote the letter that way to reduce the chances Trump would just throw it into a shredder and then fire him via Twitter.

Did Miller recommend this stuff to Giuliani?

Turd face.

The real mistake was that Studebaker-Packard got Curtiss-Wright as their management, who proceeded to loot and plunder them out of profitability.  but what would have happened if S-P had gotten Kaiser and Willys FIRST?

How could you question a marriage that produced this lovely child?

Carroll Shelby, of course, came up with a cheap and entirely effective solution:

Packard taking over Studebaker without doing enough due diligence. Packard was doing okay. Studebaker was a financial basket case after WW2. And the merger didn’t reverse Studebaker’s fortunes... it just dragged Packard down with it.

I beg to differ. The K-car and its numerous derivatives, crappy as they were, saved Chrysler’s bacon in the ‘80s.

All the GM posts make me think of the original GM “alright maybe this idea might have been okay but...” project, the Copper-cooled Chevrolet. Here’s the engine.

Can’t believe I had to scroll so far for this one.

I’m older than a lot of people on here, so I’ll nominate Packard agreeing to merge with Studebaker.

The Fiero was a good idea, but as usual GM really screwed the pooch on execution.  By the time they got the Fiero right, nobody wanted it anymore.

The Edsel. Ford tried to fill a perceived gap in the market which wasn’t as large as they thought it was, and had their new make built on the same lines as Ford and Mercury products by workers who would have rather stuck to just making said Fords and Mercurys. And to top it off, they gave the Edsel a grille that looks…

This is such a terrible decision with such long-ranging consequences. I’m not sure how many people know that gasoline had lead in it for years because GM and Standard Oil wanted an anti-knock compound that was patentable and wasn’t a fuel in its own right (i.e. ethanol). They knew it was poison from the beginning, but…

The Daimler Chrysler merger.

Henry Ford was like, ‘Nah, I’ve already got one car company run by an anti-semitic megalomaniac, why do I need another?’

Tetraethyl lead.

Studebaker and Packard not merging with Hudson and Nash to be a big fourth American car maker. 

Bringing the X cars to market without finishing the product development or giving a single flying fuck about the quality control of the product. GM launched these cars to huge fanfare and demand, and with one this one product,  pissed away a generation of goodwill and brand loyalty.