WASHINGTON ? The White House on Sunday pushed out the chairman of General Motors and instructed Chrysler to form a partnership with the Italian automaker Fiat within 30 days as conditions for receiving another much-needed round of government aid...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/bu...o.html?_r=1&hp
I'm just reading the article so maybe I'll find some hints in there, but:
What would be the best approach to transform the US automotive industry? Are there alternatives?
How long can this take?
How much money will have to be spent to get this anywhere near black numbers?
How could nobody see for years a trend towards the total crash?
Can there be more mergers with other automakers? What can this bring?
How to deal with the trade unions?
Where to find necessary cost cuts?
How many jobs are we talking about?
I sure love the US cars, I wouldn't ever want you to EVER live in a country, where driving an economic shit car with an engine from mowing machine is considered cool.
Here's an interesting graph:
So what do you think?