Bob Lutz was talking to John Batchelor about the end of Generous Motors and if you read the book “The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry”, nothing about GM has changed. He’s just been retained by the “New” GM to be their vision guy.<\/p>\n
GM’s “problems” were a only problem of perception. That Socialist Media just would never give GM a break. Detroit’s cars were far superior than the cars from other places in the world – all that was wrong was the failure of the American Media to convince people of that.<\/p>\n
The slimy sales tactics, the fraudulent practices rampant in the service departments, the overlapping brands all made in the same factory, the 60 year old factories, the resistance to use radial tires, the reuse of cast iron engine designs using pushrods, the UAW workers deliberately cross threading wheel nuts just for fun had nothing to do with GM’s failure…. GM failed because of the NY Times and Barney Frank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bob Lutz was talking to John Batchelor about the end of Generous Motors and if you read the book “The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry”, nothing about GM has changed. He’s just been retained by the “New” … Continue reading