^ Not necessarily, but you're right about the reliability part. Nobody wants to believe it, though...
30 years of domestic laziness and irresponsiveness has caught up to them, and consumer perception (along with spiraling healthcare costs etc.) is one of the biggest enemies of the American car industry. Field is right; there needs to be major changes now or the decent cars that come out of American companies will be ignored.
Ford has a decent lineup currently, if not a bit boring. But then again, Toyota became successful by building mildly boring cars that work (Celica, Supra, etc. notwithstanding.) Their management of their luxury brands like Land Rover and Jaguar is superb; no "Other GM products excluded" crap here.
Which leads me conveniently to the next point: what I think is killing GM the most is badge engineering. Consumers aren't stupid! We know you're taking your Equinox (which isn't that bad of a vehicle, really) and instead of going the extra mile to make it a worldbeater, as written about in
Autoextremist, they slap a Pontiac badge on it and expect us to fall for it. Look at Saab; sure they have more sales, but how are consumers going to feel about it as a premium vehicle (it is, really!) when they're getting Trailblazer parts on it? Etc. ad nauseaum.
I've got a feeling this thread is going to get real ugly, quick.
So in advance, you're all n00bies, and anybody who posts anything next is wrong and a blithering idiot.