Akerson believes that will come, if GM stays focused on building stronger brands through design, quality and technology, and by becoming the leader in owner loyalty with great vehicles and outstanding service.
Come March 31, GM will decide whether to sell HUMMER or phase the brand out.
The new GM pickups come with a bunch of improvements, including an all-new family of V-6 and V-8 engines called EcoTec3.
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Monday's comments come less than a week after GM's chief executive said he was feeling confident now that billions of U.S. government bailout dollars have bolstered the company's balance sheet.
Frank Marshall Davis saw GM as a sinister force, and was unrelenting in his anti-GM crusade for years to come.
Now, the Bush administration had already given several billions of dollars worth of aid, and GM and Chrysler were told to come up with a plan.
Shanghai GM, as the joint venture has come to be known, has since gone on to become one of the leading passenger car companies in China.
It will take years, even decades, for Cadillac to come close to generating the kind of sales and profits GM reaps from its pickups.
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This must have been a point Marchionne really wanted to make, because despite the increasingly crucial place in the presidential campaign that has come to be occupied by the auto bailouts, both GM and Chrysler executives have been nearly completely mum about it.
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You have the CEOs of GM and Chrysler making a very rare step to come out and say these ads are false.
And with such a high-profile car, GM is likely to stick with Volt for years to come.
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"It looks like GM will go into court as a global company and come out a North American company, " says John Casesa, managing partner of Casesa-Shapiro Group, an industry consultant.
But GM warned that it expects fourth-quarter operating profit to come in well below the level of the first three quarters of the year because it is pulling back on production of trucks and making more small cars, which have narrower margins.
"An opportunity like this isn't going to come around again, " says Dino Bernacchi, head of branded entertainment for GM.
But GM executives insisted, in a conference call, that they had come up with the best combination of performance, fuel economy and durability.
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That level of employee management is pretty impressive: according to the Census, fewer than 1, 000 U.S. companies even come close those kinds of numbers, putting it on par with Marriott, GM and Starbucks and well ahead of Apple and Microsoft.
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With York off the board and free from confidentiality and other constraints that come with being a director, he and Kerkorian will likely be able to pressure GM more publicly.
Additionally, GM can incentivize sales by promoting the idea that a new car can now come with a rental income stream attached.
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Congress has just decided to send the titans of the auto industry back home with empty hands and a big homework assignment - come up with a business plan to get the big three, Chrysler, Ford, and GM, back in the black.
General Motors (GM) predicted more modest sales of 15 to 15.5 million in the year to come.
There is an enormous positive internal effect: Lutz plants a flag at GM for all of the product people to rally behind and creates an aura of victory to come.
So I think what the President has asked GM to do today is to sit down and go back to that table, re-plan and come back again, and we'll certainly make a determination.
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