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Originally Posted by rolla-XRS
It will be an interesting decade to see if GM & Chrysler will be able to reorganize AND put themselves into a position where they can also launch new product in less time - while maintaining quality levels. I'm a skeptic primarily since they retain the same people with the old way of thinking (so I'll keep my taxpayer chequebook handy). On the other hand, Toyota still retains much of the core values that made it successful which should position itself well to manage this challenge. Time will tell...
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GM will have a better chance than it did before. Now they can actually spend money on marketing one car instead of attempting to market 3 cars for the same market. We all know the Chevrolet Malibu is the one GM wanted to sell the most of, that of course sacrificed the G6 and the Aura both Delta platform cars like the Malibu. Its basically down to whether GM allows their bean counters to design the cars or let their engineers design them and I'm sure GM fans know exactly when the bean counters were ruining GM's car lineup. There's less excuses this time around.
Chrysler...because of how screwed up its current lineup is will be a former shadow of itself. The truly bad cars are certain to disappear those being the Patriot, Caliber, Compass, Commander, PT Cruiser and the Dakota. The Liberty, Sebring and Avenger will retain their names but be replaced by Fiats and other gaps the disappearing cars will be filled in by Fiats. Staying will be the Wrangler, Grand Cherokee, 300, Charger, the Caravan/Town & country, Nitro and Journey. I personally think the Nitro and Journey should be scrapped since they're pretty bad, perhaps they'll be scrapped later. There is no mention of whether the Fiats replacing these cars would also include Lancia or Alfa Romeo. Chrysler's fate is really in the hands of Fiat, the worse Fiat does the more certain the Dodge and Chrysler names are done for.
