"CardsFan" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> If you were running GM, what would you do? Just remember this - money
runs
> the game.
>
Decrease management by 10%, increase the workforce by 10%, and fire all
the
designers. I can puke and come up with better styling. If anyone draws
another Aztek, drag them out in the parking lot, bring all the staff out
to
watch, and shoot the guy. Tell them the next styling review is Monday.
Who
wants to be first?
All management above $300,000 per year gets cut to $10,000 a year. Let
them
see what many of their potential customers endure. Bonuses will bring
them
up, but only when earned. They make quota, they get something.
Manager on the line day. On Corvette Forum, some have suggested the
problem
with American business is that they are all run by MBAs who have no idea
of
what the company does or makes. Have every manager spend one day on the
line somewhere working each month. Of course, that really doesn't give
them
a sense of much. Make them work the line for a week once every 6 months.
Drop all hiring of managers from outside. Begin upward internal climbs on
the corporate ladder starting from the line itself.
Rethink the car lines completely. Chevy is the low price field for
working
Americans, so price them that way. Get rid of the confusion with the
models. Make models that are fun and useful. Beat the ricers. Why is
the
16 to 25 year olds running Hondas, Toyotas, and such? Dependability,
tuneability, and horsepower. You can get almost anything you want to turn
one of them into a street racer, a road racer, or a drag racer. And they
will run forever.
How many you see doing that in a Malibu or a Cobalt?
Corvette. It always was expensive, but it had the cheap 250 hp 3 speed
base
model for the guy who could scrape financing for $3500 and the raw twist
the
world horsepower for those who could double that price. And everything
between by checking the boxes. Today, the boxes are which interior
appointments. Basically, you have base convertible, base coupe, and the
outrageous Z06. But the base cars really aren't base in price.
Trucks. Cut the weight by 5% a year for the next 5 years. Shoot for 10%
per year, but definitely make 5%. This will do more to hit those gas usage
requirements AND make them more appealing as they get better gas mileage
than the competitors. And remember, they are trucks. A truck that has a
GVWR of 7500 should be able to haul more than 500 lbs of stuff. It should
be hauling about 2000 lbs of stuff. And towing only 3500 lb loads? Give
me
a break. A '73 Impala would do better than that, just like a '65 Chevy,
and
so on.
Cut the SUV and create a station wagon. The lower profile is better for
drag and gas mileage and you can make them 9 adult passenger models WITH
luggage space. Most SUVs are 5 passenger and if you put the third row
seat
(kiddy space only), it becomes void or any luggage space except the roof,
which just really screws up gas mileage from aerodynamics.
Do we need GMC and Chevy trucks?
Get scale back in the car lines. Cadillac was on top for the rich, Buicks
for the doctors, Pontiac for the professionals, and Chevies for the
working
stiffs. Most Americans are so shallow, that marketing might work again
for
all but Chevy. Right now, each line tries to be all things to all people
and end up competing with each other rather than with outsiders.
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