With tremendous pent-up demand, GM could easily start posting record profits once the market recovers, analysts say.
Based on what I heard from Mark Hogan, GM could surprise Silicon Valley know-it-alls and win this market.
With demand for their product sliding, Ford and GM could no longer afford so many workers with such rich benefits.
With money from Congress and perhaps from surviving dealers, GM could offer modest compensation to rejected dealers for closing their doors.
Top legal minds also say GM could easily have found a private buyer or private investor once the bankruptcy proceeding was underway.
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Rodney Johnson, president of HS Dent Investment Management, says GM could do well this year if the company cuts down on its staff and plants.
Imagine if GM could be used to create crops that produced higher yields, or were resistant to drought or could even fix their own nitrogen and produce their own fertiliser.
He apparently wanted to wait until GM could command a better share price and then have the company go fully public at once instead of in several installments as per the current plan.
In 1990, when GM initially invested in Saab, the thinking was that GM could help improve Saab's quality and overall refinement, while the Swedish brand would add some luster to GM's generally dull product portfolio.
Moreover, the number of vehicles leased by GM could grow at a rate of 3 percentage points faster than our current projections (chart not included) if GM maintains its market share and given a recovery in the asset backed market, which would improve its financing abilities.
If more people knew the truth about OnStar, General Motors (NYSE: GM) could also be in trouble.
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With the stroke of a pen and no new money from corporate, the GM pension could be fully funded actuarially anyway.
Separation distances around GM trials can prevent only 99.5% of contamination, so 0.5% of GM pollen could contaminate other crops.
Unless some dramatically new information emerges from the public responses, the GM salmon could be on dinner tables by 2014.
The key to future space travel lies in biotechnology, not propulsion technology, say experts who have suggested GM trees could grow their own greenhouses on Mars.
Next-generation GM crops could boost food grown, cut pesticide use, make crops more resistant to droughts like the one that crushed the US corn crop last year, even create crops that fertilize themselves from the air.
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France's La Tribune said that, if the talks are successful, GM and Peugeot could announce an alliance at the Geneva car show in the first week of March.
She dismissed concerns from outside the US that genetically-modified (GM) foods could harm human health as "unsubstantiated", and addressed drug trafficking and the employment of former nuclear weapons scientists.
If they play out the way he intends, they could help GM slash manufacturing costs.
There was a lot of skepticism about whether we could get GM and Chrysler back on their feet.
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But look on the bright side: GM's results could have been worse.
Starting an incentive war could dent GM's image and its share price.
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But environmentalists, such as Ma, say this could allow GM seeds to outcompete natural seeds in the field and significantly reduce genetic biodiversity.
And we helped GM -- we helped out GM so that they could retool, so that they could become a leader in the 21st century.
But the actions of GM have highlighted what could be a key question for Facebook, as well as every other social media site: does advertising on social media websites work?
While the rest of the company works to shave another 5% off the costs of supplies and wrestles with the union to close plants here and there and give up some health care benefits, Burns could cut GM's Gordian knot with the simplest element in the universe.
This plan is also how you could turn GM's impossibly broad lineup of cars into an unmatchable asset. n Michael Eisner, chairman and CEO of Walt Disney: Buy Apple Computer, and tell your board that the brilliant Steve Jobs is your successor. n Steve Jobs, chairman of Pixar Studios, chairman and interim chief executive officer of Apple Computer: Steve, take Eisner's offer.
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