Re: [FLEAA] wake up GM ? Who Killed the Edsel

2008-06-15 Thread Johnsrstb
Anyone in this group know the history of Ford's Edsel. The following is an excerpt from wikipedia regarding the Edsel's failure: Perhaps the most important factor in the Edsel's failure, however, was that when the car was introduced, the U.S. was entering a period of _recession_

[FLEAA] wake up GM!

2008-06-11 Thread Michael Clark
We all can have only theories based on the known facts but its looking worse and worse for GM. One reason I can understand for GM is their stockholders expect the stock to keep climbing. GM has to build cars that people will accept to last only 5 years at the most and the trade them in for new

Re: [FLEAA] wake up GM!

2008-06-11 Thread Fran Sullivan-Fahs
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:23 PM Subject: [FLEAA] wake up GM! We all can have only theories based on the known facts but its looking worse and worse for GM. One reason I can understand for GM is their stockholders expect the stock to keep climbing. GM has to build cars