General Motors Death Watch 25: GMAC RIP
It may not have escaped GM watchers' notice that The General has just announced that it's selling 60% of the General Motors Acceptance Corporation's (GMAC) c…
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General Motors Death Watch 24: The Value of Nothing
I should have seen it coming. How could GM flog its remaining '05 cars, trucks and SUV's at anything other than the Employee Discount for Everyone (EDFE) pri…
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General Motors Death Watch 23: The Price of Everything
And so General Motors turns to 'value pricing' to maintain the momentum created by its now defunct Employee Discount For Everyone (EDFE) program. OK, so what…
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General Motors Death Watch 22: If the Mask Fits…
GM's second quarter financial results prove what we've been saying all along: sales do not necessarily equal profits. Thanks to its Employee Discount for All…
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General Motors Death Watch 21: Is Daihatso?
So, GM car Czar Bob Lutz breaks cover again. This time, Maximum Bob strolled into the offices of AutoWeek to face a grilling from the magazine's editor. We…
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General Motors Death Watch 20: Hybrid Hell
Opening up a recent issue of Autoweek, I was astonished by a picture of a new SUV. The vehicle's design was clean, modern and butch, without the slightest hi…
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General Motors Death Watch 19: The Phony War
Winston Churchill called it the phony war: the period between the Nazi conquest of Poland and their assault on Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg. During…
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General Motors Death Watch 18: Discount This
When my Mom returned from a major shopping expedition, she'd justify her voluminous purchases by telling Dad how much money she'd saved. "If you save enough…
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General Motors Death Watch 17: Forgive and Forget?
Rex Raider recently ranted about The General's sales doldrums on GMinsidenews.com. The senior camp follower recognizes that hundreds of thousands of GM cus…
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General Motors Death Watch 16: Bob's Culture Club
Bob's blog is back. Once again, GM's Main Man has gone online to tell it like it is. Once again, T-TAC's ready to read between the lines, looking for the lea…
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General Motors Death Watch Pt. 15: Branded!
OK, so you want to save all eight remaining GM brands. Good for you! It sure would make a lot of people happy. So let's do it, starting with each GM division…
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General Motors Death Watch 14: GM Vs. the UAW
Let's be clear about this: the United Auto Workers is not going to let General Motors cut ANY union benefits without a long and vicious fight. GM Vice Presid…
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General Motors Death Watch 13: Steady as She Goes
'We aren't going out of business in the next six months.' After yesterday's stockholder meeting, GM Chairman Rick Wagoner faced reporters and jokingly predic…
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General Motors Death Watch 12: The Summer Solstice
GM and its supporters have a mantra: product. By continually chanting "product, product, product", they hope the company's critics will believe that a string…
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General Motors Death Watch 11: Max Bob's Blog
Bob blogs. Mr. Lutz' entries on fastlane.gmblogs.com are irregular enough to merit cybernetic Metamucil, and the GM Vice Chairman's comments are about as 'of…
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General Motors Death Watch 10: Great Landing, Wrong Airport
Vice President Spiro Agnew used to call the press 'nattering nabobs of negativism'. The barb was part of Agnew's campaign against the press during the Nixon…
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General Motors Death Watch 9: A Man, A Plan
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a plan! Post-Fiat payoff, post-financial quarter from Hell, post-Kerkorian, post-junk bond status, pre-stockholder meeting, The…
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General Motors Death Watch 8: Banzai!
Last week, we learned that embattled GM Supremo Rick Wagoner was flying to Tokyo to discuss the possibility of 'sharing' Toyota's hybrid technology. GM offic…
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General Motors Death Watch 7: CPR
Whenever a domestic automaker goes to the wall, it's always someone else's fault: the foreign exchange rate, health care costs, pension obligations, product…
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General Motors Death Watch 6: Petard Hoisting
Mr. Witzenburg's recent TTAC editorial criticized Mr. Farago for his anti-GM bias and asked us to give the domestic automaker a fair shake. While I respect M…
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General Motos Death Watch 5: The Perfect Storm
Oh dear. It seems that the long predicted "perfect storm" is massing above the stricken supertanker that is General Motors. Storm cloud one: the Wall Street…
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General Motors Death Watch 4: Thanks I needed That!
When Toyota Chairman Hiroshi Okuda proposed raising the price of his company's products to help floundering US automakers, industry insiders didn't know whet…
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General Motors Death Watch 3: Safety First?
OnStar's radio ads are powerful stuff. The 30-second documentaries– featuring real life rescue coordination by OnStar staff– jerk more tears than…
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General Motors Death Watch 2: Dan Neil Takes A Bullet
Unbelievable. GM’s lost the plot, they’re losing the game and now they want to take their ball and go home. After automotive critic Dan Neil ripp…
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General Motors Death Watch 1: GM Must Die
When The Donald calls aspiring apprentices into the boardroom to determine which one to fire, I’m always hoping for a miracle. I want him to can ALL of…
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