Rick Wagoner

GM Super-Psyched for Reinvention

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2687464&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] It’s only June 7th and already, I have my Atrocity of the Month post prepared. Someone tell me who in Crom’s name paid for this whitewash?  “We need to reinvent ourselves“?  Really?  Just a few months ago, the Rick Wagoner regime didn’t even consider bankruptcy an option, “it’s not even on the table,”…

Can It Be? Really? A Ford Turnaround?

Here’s a new Analogy for y’all: Ford is to General Motors as The Jeffersons are to Sanford and Son While Chrysler and GM currently subsist on bridge loans from the government, Ford (F) is Movin’ On Up as their latest quarterly results came in better than expected on multiple fronts… From TheStreet.com: Ford (F) beat the first-quarter estimates…

Goodbye Rick Wagoner…and Maybe GM

In the New York Times, Micheline Maynard wrote a pretty balanced account of how Rick Wagoner became CEO of General Motors (GM) to start with and why many of the problems facing the company were already in place before he took control about a decade ago. The article raises more questions than it actually answers….