GM still has the Bullmoose attitude
GM, threatened by Toyota, vows to ‘fight for every sale’
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/05/070105151324.w9nxb3pt.html
General Motors boss Rick Wagoner insists the US company will not give up its
position as the world’s top automaker without a fight.
Speaking ahead of this weekend’s press opening of the North American
International Auto Show, the GM chairman and chief executive said he was
well aware of the seemingly unstoppable threat posed by Japan’s Toyota.
"I like being number one, and I think our people take pride in it. So it’s
not something we’re going to sit back and let somebody else pass us,"
Wagoner told reporters on Friday.
"We’re going to have to fight for every sale and do it in way that is
consistent with building the enterprise," he said.
"If as a result of that we get passed, it won’t be a happy day for me. But
I’ve lost basketball games before, and as a result of that you get ready,
you learn and go back and play the next day," said Wagoner, who played
college basketball at North Carolina’s Duke University in the early 1970s.
"We’re going to fight to keep the position, and if we lose, we’re going to
fight to get it back."
Last month, Toyota said it planned to make 9.42 million vehicles worldwide
this year. That would exceed the 9.18 million GM expected to have made in
2006.
This year, GM’s production looks likely to fall with the company, like its
Detroit rival Ford, laying off thousands of workers and shuttering plants.
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The brave might not live forever but the timid do not live at all