It’s never the market’s fault. All decisions made by the market are directly related to the product. After decades of eroding brand value while other products are innovating, no one is just going to turn around and buy Chevy because “its time to give them a chance again.”

Well frankly, you could have chosen a lot of better header pics. And you could have at least mentioned that there is a biography about her available:

There is a bit more to this story. It was the Automobile Manufactures Association that pressured the AAA to implement the ban. Part of the rationale was due to marketing. The AMA had written extensive marketing campaigns to sell gas and electric cars to different sexes. The gas cars were being marketed to men as wild…

I wish my mom had been able to read these growing up. She would have been an incredible race car driver, and has the speeding tickets to prove it!

Here she is:

His list of needs has him primed for a GTI though which I hear has a great automatic.

I think everyone got to the “Must be an automatic” and gave up.

I was going to suggest Fiesta ST, but its manual only. Leaving the only decent auto (that I have heard up short of super cars), GTI.

It was only a matter of time before GM committed to killing Oshawa completely; they've been slowly doing it for years. The irony is that according to their own website, that plant is the best one they have and the most flexible, able to build any and all products from all brands. You would think that would be…

Yes - heading into 2008, Ford was the only major US manufacturer that was halfways prepared. Mullaly had even mortgaged the Ford emblem to pay off corporate debt. The next five years (2009 through roughly 2013) were very good years for the blue oval. This could turn out well for GM once the two-years-overdue…

Disagree. This is a decision to guide them to long term success. The plants are underutilized and they need to right size and place investment in the right places.

stock went up 7% on the news, so i’d say shareholders are reacting positively

Actually, I bet “increasing efficiency” makes the shareholders quite happy. It’s the folks who get downsized that think it sucks.

The f**k are you even talking about? Nissan has grown almost double in sales volume since 2005 under Ghosn. The only misstep he took was going too heavy, too soon on the Leaf, otherwise they company has thrived under him and wouldn’t have done otherwise without his leadship.

I would have told those people that it was a biohazard we chose to dispose of.

Interesting, creative piece - but I think Auto makers are only going to build what the most people want at a particular price point to maximize ROI. I personally don’t find it some sort of emotional epiphany. I think the struggle and frustration is with enthusiast, (honestly like you and me,) that have to realize that…

i vote against my own financial self interest all the time... i’d love to vote for politicians that will raise my taxes to provide me with better roads, and bridges, politicians who will raise my taxes so more children can go to better funded schools, and social welfare programs that actually help lift people out of…

It didn’t change the minds of the farmers that are sitting on tons of near worthelss soybeans. Or the factory workers that lost their jobs when the steel tariffs forced factories to close or layoff workers.

As I recall, some EU leaders offered just that. It was dismissed by the American side as insufficient, as they’re aware most American cars wouldn’t sell in Europe (or many other places) with a subsidy, never mind a tariff.

Ha, I get to do these things because of the earlier stuff done by folks like Denise.

Make no mistake, anyone with McCluggage’s resume is undeniably epic, and I have nothing but the greatest respect for her accomplishments. My comment, of course, was rife with tongueincheekiosity, no disrespect intended.