Several of you have told me that GM is "so yesterday" that I should stop trashing them—as in ... Who cares?
Well they're still damn big, and still employ a lot of us. So I pose this question: Who's more incompetent, FEMA's chief or GM's? As I see it ... Whatta contest!
As I (clearly) recall, GM boss Rick ("I know things you don't") Wagoner said ... I KNOW THINGS YOU DON'T. Namely that buyers didn't give a shit about gas prices ... and would keep on buyin' his high-margin SUVs.
Of course RW couldn't have predicted New Orleans, but it seems as though the Japanese did!
Last week GM announced August car sales were down a whopping 13% (industry sales were up 3.8%) ... even as they continued their "free cars" employee discount. Ford's biggest SUV sales plunged ... 40%! And, oh yeah, Japanese car market share hit a new record, 39%. (Nissan ... +15%. Toyota ... +14%. Honda ... +23%.) So what, exactly, is it/was it that Wagoner knew that you and I didn't?