" From: KSiroonian@xxxxxxx " " nice article from Patrick Foster in this weeks Automotive news. " " COMMENT " GM could learn plenty from AMC " [] " 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. ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought