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robertp
01-05-2007, 04:46 PM
lol tough talk targeted towards Toyota:
http://www.katu.com/news/business/5099371.html

man..GM and Toyota have been in the news a lot lately...

"I like being No. 1, and I think our people take pride in it," he told a small group of reporters at GM's headquarters. "It's not something we're going to sit back and let somebody else pass us by."

Toyota last month announced a global production target of 9.42 million vehicles for 2008, increasing the odds that it will surpass GM. That would easily exceed the 9.2 million vehicles GM is estimated to have produced in 2006.

Wagoner wouldn't reveal the company's 2007 production targets, but he said GM has the capacity to build more than 9.42 million cars worldwide. The company will fight for every sale, he said, but will stay within its strategy to rely on quality products to make money and less on selling cars and trucks with incentives.

If Toyota does pass GM, Wagoner said he would not be pleased.

"It won't be a happy day for me, but I've lost basketball games before in my life. You get ready and you learn and you go back the next day, and that's what we'll do," he said. "We're going to fight to keep the position, and if one day we lose it, we'll fight to get it back."

Sorin
01-05-2007, 05:24 PM
If Toyota does pass GM, Wagoner said he would not be pleased.
He shouldn't be. It's GM's own damn fault they have slipped this far and are going to get passed up. After so many years of building subpar vehicles and not listening to the consumers and reviewers (the intelligent ones), they've lost too much trust and have let themselves get here. Plus not being able to do anything about the unions doesn't help, who have the nuts of the big 3 in a vice grip.

When you lose trust like that, you can't give 100% or 110% to get it back. You have to work super hard and give 200% or more to get it back...if you can get it back at all. Maybe it's going to take them being overtaken in order for them to get a clue and learn something. Sad.

M_TYPE_X
01-07-2007, 02:30 PM
"Throwing down the gauntlet" will be nothing less than releasing the new RWD sedans and coupes without any marketing or manufacturing hang-ups or design flaws.