Some thoughts on GM and the US govt's role

[lilpup]

Another point - the automakers have always had overseas design teams to deliver to overseas markets. Ford's philosophy, and GM's is similar, has always been to have local markets served by local industry [["local" basically meaning "on a particular continent") - thus there have been Asian, Latin American, North American, European, etc. design inputs to some degree, but in the past the regional designs hadn't been globalized since globalization is really driven by political and market forces [[which is why diesel is more prominent in Europe, alternative fuels are in Brazil, and the US has yet to break away from a petroleum dominated market).