If the government took GM, Ford and Chrysler, merged them all together as one company in order to make them mean and lean and able to compete against the foreign brands, who would be the best government-appointed CEO or "Auto Czar" to run it?
Here's five for starters, that actually might take it:
1) Jack Welch
2) Mitt Romney
3) Jeffrey Immelt
4) Lee Iacocca
5) Macgyver
(OK, maybe not the last one, so give me one for that slot)
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He's a nut on a lot of things, but if I were at an auto company, I'd want Romney. He knows the modern business world. When s**t hits the fan, don't bet against the Mormons.
Neither of them. They need to hire Carlos "Le Cost Cutter" Ghosn of Renault/Nissan.
Nader of course, what is the problem that you didn't put him first on the list?
Jack Welch deserves to burn in hell for his part in destroying the American middle class.
Carlos Ghosn as CEO with Bob Lutz in charge of product development. What your saying scares the hell out of me though. Why you think the government would be able to consolidate and run a private enterprise better than they've been running themselves is a slippery slope.
What needs to happen is to just let one of them go. Period. Chrysler has been at bankruptcies doorstep three or four times in the last 30 years and they are tops on that list. Nothing would light the fires under the remaining companies better than seeing one of their own collapse. It would also force a smaller auto union into being more pliable and flexible.
If you want smaller European style cars here lobby for a Euro style gas tax. I'd be much happier with smaller cars on the roads than the government having their hand at an private enterprise.
MACGYVER YOU TOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!! HE CAN RIG UP SPY CARS!!!!
WELCH IS A TOOL, JUST SEEING HIM ON SQUAWK BOX MAKES ME PUKE!!!!
HEY SATAN, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE WELCH THE TOOL HOME?!?!?!?!
I'LL KEEP IT SHORT.
DOPES!!!!
Welch is a criminal. He looted GE beyond belief as he exited that company.
Save the big three? yeah Right. -- you're not thinking big enough
try, Jesus Christ, Gandalf the White, Heracles, Superman, Harry Houdini, Albert Einstein. . .
Romney is shrewd. i like it.
King George W. Bushco, 43, CEO
Look what he has done to America.
From Creditor to Bankrupt and ruined in 8 years.
Not everyone can say that about their decisions...
Censure Bush today. The pardons have already begun. Many, many more to come.
America: turd world nation of Nothing.
Bushco = Laughing Stock of the World.
I agree with Realist, Carlos Ghosn and Bob Lutz are the best two car execs out there right now. Honorable mention would go to Ford's Alan Mulally, who is actually doing a decent job streamlining the operations over there.
I'd think these morons would tap Mcgruber before they tapped anyone with a brain. Hand me the toothpick!!!!
I would like this role to be filled by Michael Douglas. He was good in Wallstreet.
>Jack Welch?
LOL, you've got to be shitting us. Welch drove GE to prosperity by relying more and more on GE Capitol to bring home the bacon. Jezz.
While I have worked at GM for over 100 years, I never buy their cars.
Hey DOPES!
Thank you for using my product! (dope)
Your friend...
Satan.
For the record, I HATE Jack Welch - grade A SOB. Can't stand the guy.
That said, I think he'd be good at GM-Ford-Chrysler. First thing he'd do is fire half of the overpaid workers. Then he'd get rid of 50% of the brands.
Get it? The carcass needs a clean-up man. A fixer. A mean and greedy SOB.
All three will not roll into one.
One or two may have to go, but they will not mix as a salvation operation. There are generational divisions between employees as well as customers that simply will not dissolve quickly.
That being said, I would not count Ford out just yet.
Ford has a strong, successful presence in Europe, with an affordable, well designed, fuel efficient, lineup of autos that Alan Mullally is bringing to America.
Some models are scheduled to be available here early next year.
I'd sure hate to see so much of our remaining core manufacturing ability be lost by taking all 3 big makers down.
ME!
mark hurd from HP (and NCR before that).
Mitt Romney has the best hair. Reminds me of that stretchy guy from the Fantastic Four. He definitely could single-handedly save the American auto industry with the hair alone.
At least if MACGYVER were running the show we would be driving for cheap. Give him some used kitchen drain pipes, old VCR guts, and 50bs of peanut shells and he could probably invent a fusion engine.
He's done it before.
Dr. Kevorkian
I have to give it to old Oven-Mitts. Hes the perfect choice for the big three. Under his rein we can expect a good shake up. I don't know how much longer he can keep them afloat. I always had a mental image of him riding the sucker down. Kind of like "Doctor Strange Love"
Mitt is the obvious choice. He would be an excellent choice in my opinion. Obama should have found a place for him in his cabinet.
Keith, seriously, you know not of what you speak. I know it's fun to pick on domestic automakers, but the foreign companies are NO BETTER. Toyota got how many hundreds of millions in CORPORATE WELFARE to build, what?
50 mpg prius?
Nope, GAS GUZZLING V-8 PICKUPS! Pickups with terrible build quality, brake problems and engine problems - look it up dude.
Oh yeah, notable quote from the article below, "Now, about 2,000 permanent employees draw a paycheck from a plant that doesn't produce anything." a TOYOTA plant, not a GM plant.
Yeah, they're sooooo much smarter than Americans are, my treasonous friend.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2008-08-28-toyota-trucks_N.htm
#5 Macgyver.
The others are just part of the Libertarian clown posse.
Be honest and change the GM name to Give Me!
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