The Death of GM Comes By Their Own Sword

GM must be a very proud company. You can tell this by them practicing hara-kiri on themselves. An ancient tradition that was once reserved for Samurai Warriors is now in the corporate world.

The two key vital mistakes that GM is about to make are:

1) Moving production overseas.
The US tax payer is footing their rescue bill, but they plan to move more and more production out of the US. Now at about 15% they plan to increase this number to over 23%. As a long time General Motors product owner, I can say that when my current lease is up, I will never buy another after hearing this news.
I am disgusted that the leadership of GM would even consider any such move when US jobs are vanishing.

2) Closing dealerships.
Why? Dealerships cost GM little to nothing. They are owned by individuals and those individuals should be the ones to make that decision, NOT GM. Many of these people have their lives invested in these dealerships and with the swipe of a pen, all their work and all those jobs, and supporting jobs, will be gone.
Maybe “Bill’s Chevrolet” only sells 20 units a month. It is not a power house dealership, but serves its local small town community in a special way, and has done so for more than 30 years.
No Dealers, no service? Now customers will have to double their trip time for repairs and service as well.

GM has just set its course for doom. Killing their massive distribution network and making hundreds of thousands of individuals GM haters for life. Good bye GM, hello Ford.

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