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What’s Wrong With This Picture: Onward & Upward…?

By Daniel J. Stern
November 6, 2009

What can we learn about GM’s R&D from the direction of the arrows in the departmental graphic identity…?

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What’s Wrong With This Picture: Don’t Be Such a Pussy Edition

By Robert Farago
November 6, 2009

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What’s Wrong With This Picture: The Old Ennui Edition

By Robert Farago
November 6, 2009

So what about this, then? Or this? I guess some brands are meant to be broken.

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What’s Wrong With This Picture: Planning Sales Edition

By Edward Niedermeyer
November 5, 2009

This graph is representative of a major assumption underlying the entire Chrysler Group turnaround plan: namely, that 2009 is a trough year and that (despite the lack of new mass-market product until 2012) 2010 will see Chrysler not only holding the line on plummeting sales, but actually increasing them dramatically. Where does this optimsim come from? In part, a projected rise in SAAR. Otherwise, the only rationale for this assumption is that the financial plan requires this kind of short-term growth to succeed. [Apologies for the giant images... like Chrysler, we're doing what we can with what we have]

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Whats Wrong With This Picture: Surrender Fiat/Chrysler Edition

By Paul Niedermeyer
November 4, 2009

Edward caught this flying over the skies of Detroit this morning.

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What’s Wrong With This Picture: We’ll Always Be Together Edition

By Robert Farago
November 2, 2009

And by the way, as Eddy reported back in July 2008, it’s not illegal.

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What’s Wrong With This Picture?: The Company You Keep Edition

By Edward Niedermeyer
October 30, 2009

Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska meets with Fritz Henderson, German Gref of Russia’s Sberbank and Siegfried Wolf of Magna. The state department had previously denied Deripaska a US visa for undisclosed reasons, but according to the WSJ, the FBI arranged for Deripaska to visit the US because “they were getting interesting information from him.” Deripaska denies any cooperation with US authorities.

Posted in 3WTP | Crime & Punishment | News Blog | People | 11 comments

What’s Wrong With This Picture: How The Mighty Have Fallen Edition

By Edward Niedermeyer
October 29, 2009

In the same week BMW revealed a one-off, 580 hp, 100+ lbs lighter “M5 CSL we never built” (in the words of the M division’s head of development, Albert Biermann), BMW USA’s VP had this to say about his firm’s absence from Cadillac’s CTS-V Challenge:

We have no fear of comparisons by objective bodies, but it’s different if the person doing the comparison has a dog in the hunt

Not that the point lacks validity, but would BMW’s tune be different if the M5 CSL were a production model? We’d like to think so.

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What’s Wrong With This Picture?: Acura, NSFW Yeah! Edition

By Edward Niedermeyer
October 28, 2009

[via South Park Studios]

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What’s Wrong With This Picture?: Midsize Mainstream Meshuga Edition

By Edward Niedermeyer
October 28, 2009

Oooh, look! It’s another official VW sketch of its North America and China-only, Passat-replacing New Midsize Sedan (NMS). Never mind product strategy, on a clear day will you be able to see out those windows? Hit the jump for the old official sketch. For contrast. Ish.

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