{"id":6035,"date":"2010-02-16T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T13:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2010-02-16T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T13:10:15","slug":"re-gm-saving-10-7-billion-means-cash-for-trucks-2010-profit-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/re-gm-saving-10-7-billion-means-cash-for-trucks-2010-profit-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: GM Saving $10.7 Billion Means Cash for Trucks, 2010 Profit Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessweek has a nice opinion piece about GM&#8217;s plans: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-02-16\/gm-saving-10-7-billion-means-cash-for-trucks-2010-profit-goal.html\" target=\"_blank\">GM Saving $10.7 Billion Means Cash for Trucks, 2010 Profit Goal &#8211; BusinessWeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Overall theme?\u00a0 GM has cut the budget and is spending the money on improved products (good).<\/p>\n<p>I found this opinion a good sign going forward but very sad looking back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GM has come to the realization that customers are more perceptive than  the old GM used to think,\u201d said Eric Noble, president of CarLab, an  Orange, California-based automotive consultant that specializes in  product planning. \u201cThe only way to win is to gain an advantage in  product quality.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are the details of interest to me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Truck redesign to include more efficient engines and lighter materials (Including Cadillac Escalade)<\/li>\n<li>Cadillac XTS planned for production, perhaps to be in showrooms by 2013<\/li>\n<li>Cadillac XTS will probably include a plug-in hybrid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of this seems like good news that GM and Cadillac are on the right path &#8212; hopefully 2010 will be a shining year for execution &#8212; good production, good sales &#8212; that will lay the ground work for continued development and future products that we can all enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Cadillac still needs to solve the equation of how to sell their current sedans.\u00a0 It is terrific that the SRX is such a hit, but it puts in even greater contrast the sales performance of the sedans.\u00a0 Yes, the CTS Coupe will sell well when it arrives this summer.\u00a0 BUT they need to get the DTS and CTS sales moving or it will be a long year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessweek has a nice opinion piece about GM&#8217;s plans: GM Saving $10.7 Billion Means Cash for Trucks, 2010 Profit Goal &#8211; BusinessWeek. Overall theme?\u00a0 GM has cut the budget and is spending the money on improved products (good). I found &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/re-gm-saving-10-7-billion-means-cash-for-trucks-2010-profit-goal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[6,197],"tags":[468,166,470,20,79,469],"class_list":["post-6035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-info-news","category-xts","tag-cadillac-xts","tag-cash","tag-debt","tag-gm","tag-hybrid","tag-new-gm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035","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=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}