Also:
GMs management has been making mostly brain dead decisions the last few decades:
They were the last of the 'big 3' to figure out that customers expect QUALITY.
They started up (Saturn) and bought up (SAAB, Subaru, Hummer) divisions, but without the product development muscle to keep them all supplied with fresh, competitive offerings, so they had to kill off Oldsmobile and are back-pedaling on the 'Saturn is different' focus.
Then they bet heavily on SUVs, with no serious effort to keep fresh products competing in the small car or minivan markets.
Now, with backs to the wall, they have some fresh MeToo in the market:
The G6: most famous for having to be given away by Oprah in order to get some attention.
The Solstice: Sweet car, but can it out-last GMs famous first-year quality woes, and stay profitable long enough? Will GM give it better support than the Fiero?
Hummer H3: um.... why not save the money and buy a real chevy suv that lurkes under its skin?
(Hummer is pretty much the Poser Brand. Nothing out-machos a modded-out Jeep CJ.)
Chevy Cobalt: Finally, Chevy roles out a competitor for the 1999 Neon,
and 1994 Honda.
HHR: and a competitor for the 2001 PT Cruiser.
As for the other divisions:
Subaru: Hard to believe that the General could screw this one up. Give them time.
SAAB: A travesty, a tragedy, and a crying shame. They used to make wierd but wonderful cars. Now they are doomed to boast of a long-separated aircraft past while selling rebadged chevys and subies.
GMC: 'chevy with lockwashers'... if only GMC Heavy trucks and Corvette could be spun-off, they might make a profitable company.
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