Are things looking better? They are also experimenting with direct sales to customers online...this has got to piss off dealers to no end.
http://www.freep.com/article/20090710/BUSINESS01/90710007/1014/rss13
http://www.freep.com/article/20090710/BUSINESS01/90710007/1014/rss13
The 100-year-old General Motors was reborn today after a historic rush through bankruptcy that lasted all of 40 days.
GM CEO Fritz Henderson this morning announced changes to the company’s management structure that, he said, will allow the company to move more nimbly going forward. He promised that “business as usual is over.â€
“The last 100 days has shown everyone, including ourselves, that a company not known for quick action can in fact … move very fast,†Henderson said. “Starting today we want to take that intensity, the decisiveness and the speed of these last several weeks and then transfer it from the battlefield triage of the bankruptcy process to the day-to-day operation of the new company.
“This will be the new norm of the General Motors.â€
,...the rest of the article is in the link