Shape up or ship out

摘要

For the first time in August, Toyota sold more cars in America than Chrysler. Can anything be done? The last big book about Detroit was "Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry" by Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White. Published in 1994, it chronicled how Bob Lutz and others masterminded the recovery of Chrysler from its second brush with bankruptcy, and how Ford and General Motors (GM) learned from the Japanese how to make cars of quality more efficiently using "lean production".