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Originally Posted by tanstaafl14
I don't think you can lump everyone together. DaimlerChrysler isn't doing too badly right now. I give Ford a 50-50 chance of recovery (though it will take years). But IMHO Garbage Motors (GM) is a "dead company walking" -- doomed to eventual oblivion unless it soon takes the hard medicine of Ch. 11.
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I tend to agree.
DaimlerChrysler will likely continue, although I doubt it will ever be a world shaker. I give Ford a better than 50-50 chance (perhaps 75-25), but agree that it has a long row to hoe. I am perplexed by GM. They seem to be trying to solve their problems bass-ackwards. But GM has done stupid things before and somehow pulled them off. Perhaps they can do it again?
I expect the future of the auto industry to be based on partnerships - product development, marketing, recycling, etc. It is a way of distributing costs over a wider base and thus freeing funds for development and stakeholders.
(It is interesting that Ford's hybrid team studiously avoided partnership with Honda, Toyota, or anyone else. Perhaps it was because they used
internal partnerships with other Ford brands such as Volvo?