GM's Game of Bumpercars

摘要

Even before jerry york elbowed his way onto General Motors' board last month, he was stirring things up inside the sputtering automaker. In a speech during the Detroit Auto Show in January, the veteran turnaround artist recommended a radical repair job for GM that included dumping its Saab and Hummer divisions. "Saab and Hummer," York said, "will not save GM." The old guard immediately declined to follow York's advice, and last month GM vice chairman Bob Lutz told the media that York had undergone a conversion since becoming a GM director and now backed Saab and Hummer (de- spite the fact that Saab's a money-loser and Hummer sells in relatively small numbers).