I really don't get what this guy is trying to say...is he talking about JUST the luxury brands of GM? He's going in circles it seems....
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Originally Posted by Scotsman
Better product planning would have spared GM A LOT of the problems they're now facing and having to deal with. It's like the execs are on Golf outings more than they are in the office straightening out business.
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Or....The board of directors of a HUGE corporation can't make up their minds quick enough. It's the company execs jobes to make buisness decisons and approve
ideas, it's the boards job to approve
products.
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Originally Posted by Scotsman
The author of this piece said it best when he included Lexus and Infiniti as examples. Along with BMW, Porsche, and Mercedes they will NEVER EVER stop making RWD cars to meet any sort of fuel economy regulations. Doing so would deplete their brand equity and send customers elsewhere.
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+1...But did the author take into account that BMW, Porche, etc don't make every-day, inexpensive family sedans? Or that they are significantly smaller companies selling significantly smaller numbers of vehicles than GM? Which means that 50,000 5-series aren't going to have the same effect on overall Fleet fuel economy ratings as 250,000+ Impalas would...not to mention RWD suddenly makes the Impala unattractive (for stupid reasons) to half of those buyers -- meaning reduced sales on an all-new product.....
I think GM could have gotten a few more RWD cars out already...but I don't think anything they've done up until this point (on the RWD front) has been all-out wrong. I don't think comparing GM to these companies is very fair.