Comments on: ‘New GM’ exits bankruptcy – prepares for future

By: Wheelnut®™

Wheelnut®™ — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:28:09 +0000

Interesting/Ironic that the GM Building is called the Renaissance centre because if my understanding of the French language is right – renaissance means a new beginning

By: Shak

Shak — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:37:17 +0000

Davie you know exactly how GM operates. Are you sure your not an ex-executive. Your absolutely righ though about the planned obselence though, because GM seem to think that if someones car fails they will come back to the same manufacturer and buy the same car as a replacement.

By: forza m

forza m — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:34:50 +0000

Davie, i am sure they are listening to you pal, bc i tell you what you could be there next MD your that insightful….

By: davie

davie — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:30:33 +0000

Some free tips for the “new” GM…

rather than wasting time doing the following:
1 -Suing California for trying to improve emissions,
2 -Digging up dirt on Ralph Nador who’s trying to improve safety,
3 -Putting thousands out of work who are actually your main customers
4 -Buying up public transport and then ripping up rail lines and burning the carriages so everyone buys a car
5 -Designing your whole business around engineered obsolescence
6 -Sitting by and allowing your dealers to screw eager first-time GM customers such as demanding 10% to 20% above RRP from said customers who simply want a newly released Pontiac G8

How about you do the following:
1 – Build Quality cars which people actually want to buy
2 – Enforce unheard of levels of improved customer service from your salespeople in the pre-sales stage
3 – Don’t screw the customer over in the post sales/warranty stage.

If you do that, you might actually earn that thing that Toyota etc have: Trust. And get repeat business and not be back in chapter 11 in 5 years.

But what would I know?…

By: AAA

AAA — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:26:02 +0000

the company was run into the ground… they need fresh blood and a new union ~

By: Wheelnut®™

Wheelnut®™ — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:49:36 +0000

They need to get Bob Lutz and Peter Hannenberger back..
They need people with practical experience not to mention are passionate about and have a real interest in the auto industry who have made their way up from the factory or showroom floor NOT academics from Harvard or Oxford who are usually ignorant arrogant narrow minded imbeciles.. like their last CEO

By: Shak

Shak — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:27:55 +0000

Wait his name is Mark Reuss

By: Shak

Shak — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:30:57 +0000

They need to put the guy from Holden in some key decision making positions. Since he came into power, Holden have made money, and have also introduced some very new product.

By: Carz

Carz — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:11:46 +0000

I still hope they do recover fast since GM makes good cars. This news may be positive to some but we cannot ignore the fact that it’s still negative to others.

By: Richo

Richo — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:36:59 +0000

I sense a lot of “emotionless” boring but profitable cars coming out of GM in the next few years. They have to concentrate on profit margins and do a toyota and make cash cows rather then emotional cars. On the flip side of that argument though I guess is the new comaro which is making GM a big pile of cash…