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To: Road Walker who wrote (434466)11/12/2008 9:43:19 AM
From: Alighieri2 Recommendations  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 1574192
 
How is this for a "bailout package" for the US auto industry:

i worry about how detroit makes effective use of any incentives, loans or otherwise. Their brand is so damaged... Their cars are dull...they need a Carlos Ghosn Nissan style turn around, with stronger focus away from big battle ships of course, but a serious injection of "european" flare in the smaller cars they produce....and quality inside and out of course. The old dogs running these companies are likely to go back to what they are familiar with and fall short again...with our money this time.

Al



To: Road Walker who wrote (434466)11/12/2008 1:46:28 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574192
 
Make sense?

No.

GM's, Ford's, and Chrysler's main problems are not that their cars get too poor of gas mileage.

More generally their problems won't be fixed by politically deciding what type of vehicles they should produce. Maybe if the bailouts are big enough the problems will be papered over, but that just makes them less likely to be resolved.


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