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Monday, June 23, 2008

The Engine:100 miles per gallon

Where is it? Who has it? It certainly isnt Gm or the other ghosts that once made up the formadble Big 3. A combustion engine that could get 100 miles to the gallon would have been the stepping stone back to the big time for the Big 3. But they are really no closer to it today- than they were 10 years ago when they should have made a man on the moon effort to build this engine. Ifen someone had approched Rick Wagoner and told him hey start putting all of the companies efforts into building a 100mile per gallon engine Rick would have told him either your with me or agn me. And if your agn me u dont belong in the company. See Rick thought Gm owned the SUV market and that Gm had no competition there and that is where the companies best efforts should be concentrated---on making more SUV's since Gm owned the market in his words. Well 5 years later Gm still owns the SUV market and they are no closer to the 100mile per gallon engine then they were 5years ago and now we have whats called the last days of GM. Lee Iaccoca really was a genius because he developed the blue print for saving an automobile company. Iaccoca was so good that many people believe that it was the K Car that saved Chrylser. The K Car was the shit he was stuck with until he could develop the real product that saved Chrysler which was the mini van. The point being he immediatley brought money into the company and then came up with a product that was needed and a sure fire hit. The 100 mile per gallon engine would have been the product that saved Gm. How was Rick Wagoner to know that a hundred mile per gallon engine would be needed? Good question. Because that is what he gets paid to know. The fact that he didnt know means he never should have had that job in the first place.