The Big Three drive on 'E': GM and Ford are selling the cars of yesterday to
the citizens of tomorrow
By Jack Lessenberry
Created Nov 29 2006 - 8:16am
Last week, after writing about President George W. Bush's utterly
meaningless meeting with the heads of Ford, General Motors and the Chrysler
division of that German firm, I decided to talk to a real expert on the
industry.
I know about politics; I don't really know about cars. Jerry Flint does. He
has been a serious automotive journalist for major league publications,
including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, for just about as
long as Rick Wagoner, the man now trying to run GM, has been alive.
Today, Flint writes a highly respected column for Forbes. But it was
something he wrote on Paul Eisenstein's Car Connection (
thecarconnection.com
[1]) last week that really caught my eye. "General Motors and Ford can't
compete head-to-head with Toyota and Honda, not anymore," he wrote. The war,
in other words, is over.
