All I am saying is that there are/were a number of options that could/should have been considered which cold/would have helped GM avoid the financial problems they are experiencing if not reduce the severity.

Yes; Waggoner is between a rock and a hard place.. although if Alan Mullaly was aware of the impending situation and set about fixing it why didn’t Rick?

Therefore; if Rick Wagoner was smart he could/would/should have made it that the Company supplying the batteries built the factory to make the batteries instead of GM.

That way if LG are unable to meet demand or if Lithium Ion Batteries are surpassed by some other alternative form of power GM can simply walk away and look elsewhere.

GM design executive Simcoe says the sedan and hatch versions of Holden’s small car will be near-identical – both inside and out – to the Chevrolet Cruze versions rather than custom-designed for Australia

However, as part of the global lineup GMH are doing the hatch styling (and were already well before GMH dipped into the Govt money bucket for local production).

The new Holden small car, to be built locally, IS the Daewoo designed and Chevy badged Cruze.
“I told you so”

And by the way, this technology is about 10 years to late. GM didn’t want anything to do with electronic cars in the past and now they suddenly are launching a range.. PFFT, it’s just a band aid on the bigger problem

I mean if they weren’t idiots they would have made much smarter decisions and planned for the future years ago instead of being so ignorant and insular as to what else is happening in the rest of the world..

Don’t forget the Yanks caused the worldwide economic downturn nbecause of their sub-prime mortgage market.