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Originally Posted by LS1Hawk
The problem is that not only the government, but the people at GM don't know how to run a car company. I was watching Fox news the other night and GM's CFO was saying that they're bringing in a former Coke-a-Cola bigwig to join the new board. Maybe I'm crazy, but doesn't it make sense to have people who know cars run a car company? Guys like Knudsen, Estes, DeLorean and Wangers were real car guys. Lutz is the only guy I can think of as really knowing cars and he's retiring. The guys at GM today only know numbers and spreadsheets.
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There is always a gamble with that.
On one hand, you had GM hire former Procter and Gamble guy Ron Zarella as the head of product development. Many say that it was him who ran GM's products into the ground almost all by himself. He was replaced by Bob Lutz.
On the other, you have Ford who removed a family member, a man that has grown up inside the halls of Ford, and put in the former CEO of Boeing Alan Mullaly. There seems to have been a massive turn around at Ford, with Mullaly said to have made most if not all the moves himself, forcing things to happen.
People on the board tend to not have a ton of direction outside of making sure the company makes money. They do give the final thumbs up on certain things, but really any new blood inside of the board is the greatest thing in the world. People that understand the culture, people that actually want to help. And these people usually do come from other parts of the business world, not always automotive.
If he was coming over to replace Lutz, who is retireing, I would be a little worried. But most likely that Lutz's replacement will come from the auto-world, probably from inside GM.
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Originally Posted by Knipps
Without getting into too much chemistry let me just say that Hydrogen bonds are what hold water together, they're what hold DNA together. It's not going to be easy to break a ton of those so you can run to the grocery store.
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Oh I know, I was saying that there is a lot of it, and that there should be major developments to try to find a way to make it easier and cheaper.