GM, Ford, and Chrysler don't make quality vehicles because it's not important to them. Their system makes flawed vehicles by design.
When Deming offered his services to them they weren't interested, but Toyota and Honda were. Over time these makers became the most desirable automobiles.
Inexplicably, GM, Ford, and Chrysler are still uninterested in the Demming approach to designing vehicles which can only be assembled in a flawless manner. They are arrogant people who despise their customers, their workers, and their nation. They have no further reason to be in business - because they don't know how to run one.
Do you see other firms like Chevron mouthing one pitiful excuse after another, blaming both their customers, their employees, their country, and in short everyone other than themselves?
We have legacy costs, you whine, (which simply a buzz-word for "the result of all of your past mistakes"), no one is buying our cars and we could not have reasonably anticipated there would eventually be a recession, you whine.
These clowns want another $25 billion to be able to survive another four months, and then another $25 billion three times a year until someone develops some integrity and pulls the plug on these firms. The government may wish to provide debtor-in-possession financing to these firms the same day they file for bankruptcy. I also suspect these three firms may need to consolidate into one or two firms.
Develop some integrity. Whining time is over.
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