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Originally Posted by johnny smallblock
I disagree. In fact that is exactly what Wagoner should have done. He and several other GM execs should have driven up in a Volt, Malibu Hybrid, Vue Hybrid, Cobalt XFE and Aveo. Maybe even a Tahoe Hybrid. Anything to make the point that they are starting to make more efficient cars.
Any of the 3 execs who didn't realize that the perception of Detroit is as a maker a oversized inefficient trucks should be out of work yesterday.
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That would not have worked. When are people going to wake up? the media and congress are against the Big 3, period. If they drove hybrids the news stations would have highlighted how normally they travel in private jets and then noted that Toyota crushed GM and Ford in hybrid sales annually and the top sellers for both companies are gas guzzling pickups that they are forcing on consumers. There was NOT going to be any balanced coverage of this affair. 99% of the media is rooting for a Big 3 collapse. CBS news did a fluff piece on Japanese automakers in the US and noted how they are doing OK in the economic slump and how Toyota workers get full pay to plant trees while plants are idled. I thought that was called a jobs bank? Oh, only when GM does it.