{"id":3239,"date":"2009-12-08T18:11:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T23:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2009-12-08T18:11:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T23:11:49","slug":"good-talking-points-now-sell-some-cars-a-love-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/good-talking-points-now-sell-some-cars-a-love-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Good talking points; Now sell some cars (a love letter)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today newly appointed GM North America President Mark Reuss, and Susan Docherty, new vice president of Sales, Service and Marketing, hosted a media telecon to give some initial thoughts on their way forward.\u00a0 Later in the day, Ed Whitacre hosted a text based web chat with the media, taking open questions.<\/p>\n

All three of them made some quotable quotes.\u00a0 I continue to be cautiously optimistic that the New GM ‘gets it’ and is ready to come out of hibernation and compete for the car business.<\/p>\n

I say optimistic because I do think that Mark Reuss has (finally for GM) a sense of urgency about selling cars:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe need to sell every vehicle we can, customer by customer, dealer by dealer, here, in Canada and Mexico,\u201d GM North America President Mark Reuss said today during a conference call with media. ‘<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not setting a metric (for market share) until we do that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I say cautiously optimistic, because I think any of the things we heard today could have been said by past CEOs for GM, or any other car manufacturer.\u00a0 As Suzanne Denbow<\/a> of Ridelust.com<\/a> chided me, you don’t get credit for doing what you are SUPPOSED to do.\u00a0 GM is supposed to be competing for the car business already; they are supposed to recognize that they have to make the best cars in the world already.<\/p>\n

So, I hear the right things from the new GM Management, and the Cadillac Management.\u00a0 I *want* things to change and for GM to continue their current arc of making some really fun, interesting, high reliability, high efficiency cars and thereby reclaim their market share. \u00a0 I want to believe.\u00a0 Please new GM, ‘walk the talk’ and get into the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today newly appointed GM North America President Mark Reuss, and Susan Docherty, new vice president of Sales, Service and Marketing, hosted a media telecon to give some initial thoughts on their way forward.\u00a0 Later in the day, Ed Whitacre hosted … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gm-news","category-site-info-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}