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Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Tuesday, September 17, 2002

GM: Will Match Japan Quality in 2-3 Years

If this had been stated by anyone other than Bob Lutz, I would be laughing my quite ample buttocks off. This is, after all, the automaker who seriously thinks the Saturn is a Honda fighter.

Given that it is Lutz, I will say that it does give some hope.

GM has some incredibly talented people and great wads of cash, so maybe it can happen. As it notes in the article, though, even if they really do manage to change a culture of beancounterosity, the public's perception will still lag for a few years after that. Which, if the past actions of GM have any weight, means that when they are just about to turn the corner, the money boys will not that it's been six years of coddling incredibly talented people and spending great wads of cash with no discernable uptick in sales or loyalty, so back to the old ways of pushing crap out the door based on what little goodwill you managed to build up.


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