Re: GM can learn plenty from AMC-

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: KSiroonian@xxxxxxx
" 
" nice article from Patrick Foster in this weeks Automotive news.
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" COMMENT
" GM could learn plenty from AMC
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" Poet and philosopher George Santayana warned that those who fail to
" heed the lessons of the past will be condemned to relive them. 

he also said, in a somewhat more bitter tone, that 'what we learn from
history...  is that we fail to learn from history'.  gm sold their
fremont ca plant to toyota - in the '80s iirc - and has cooperatively
made corollas and 'nummi novas' or 'toyolets' there ever since, and
yet with this front-row seat for observing toyota's methods they
haven't apparently learned a single thing.

from this distance, it looks to me that gm mgmt has always been more
about politics than cars.  i wouldn't be surprised to learn that a
majority of their executives knew nothing about cars and were proud of
it.
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