$20.76

0.47 (2.32%)

5/12/2008 4:00 PM

General Motors Corp (GM)

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The Company is engaged in the worldwide development, production, and marketing of cars, trucks, and parts.

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General Motors Corp At A Glance

Current Price:	$20.76
Last Trade Time:	5/12/2008 4:00 PM
Open:	$20.37
Previous Close:	$20.29
Daily Range:	$20.35 - $20.78
52-Week Range:	$17.47 - $43.20
Volume:	10,786,350
Market Cap:	$11.49B
P/E Ratio:	11.59
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6 General Motors Corp (GM)

Avatar wildtribe (< 20) Submitted: 2/06/08 4:21 PM

GM is the best that America has to offer and for the moment is benefiting on the weak dollar and Toyota failing to invest in the BRIC countries. They are doing everything right to get out of the hole they have dug over the last decade and their design teams are finally getting ahead of the curve.

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16 General Motors Corp (GM)

Avatar mkdcardinal (94.72) Submitted: 3/05/08 12:16 AM

Cars as a market segment are in big trouble, and within this segment, it's hard to find a dumber or less innovative company than GM. Read this quote from GM's Vice Chairman (excerpted from Reuters.com):

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General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made...More

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Cars as a market segment are in big trouble, and within this segment, it's hard to find a dumber or less innovative company than GM. Read this quote from GM's Vice Chairman (excerpted from Reuters.com):

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General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a "total crock of s---," saying his views had no bearing on GM's commitment to build environmentally friendly vehicles.

"My thoughts on what has or hasn't been the cause of climate change have nothing to do with the decisions I make to advance the cause of General Motors," he wrote.

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Really, Bob? So first of all, your remarks do seem to indicate that you are an idiot, generally speaking, and as a shareholder, one certainly hates to have idiots running the company.

I'm willing to agree with Bob up to a point--maybe it won't be "the decisions [he] make[s]" on behalf of GM that cause the company nosedive, but the decisions he **fails** to make. He just does doesn't get it: his company's whole business business model and corporate culture are relics of the petroleum-rich 20th century. Without leadership that can (i) see the changing dynamics of private transportation in an energy-scarcer century and (ii) respond to these new dynamics not just *before* the competitors do, but *better* than they do, GM is doomed to self-imposed failure.

I see no indications that anything at GM is changing for the better. Here we are, more than 10 years removed from the introduction of the Prius first came out, and we're still watching commercials for Hummer while waiting for a mass market version of the 'Volt'.

By the way, what's the latest on the Volt? The battery takes 6.5 hours to charge completely and you can only go 40 miles--40 MILES--on said charge. Yeah, it'll really take the world by storm. If, that is, it ever actually reaches the market. GM's hoping to have 15,000 of them available by 2010. I'll believe it when I see it.

These guys couldn't innovate their way out of a paper bag. Or maybe they could, if they weren't so intent on going down with the fossil fuel ship and taking their shareholders' money with them.

What's good for GM is still good for the United States, but both appear too boneheaded to recognize what, exactly, that is.

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Recs 1 (GM) printingpress (28.38) Submitted: 5/10/08 12:48 AM : Start Price: $20.37 GM Score: -1.05 GM makes cars that guzzle the texas tea. Tea is expensive. Only poor people buy crappy GM cars. Poor people cant afford gas. They'll stay away, and so should you. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 1 (GM) niedles3 (81.82) Submitted: 5/09/08 6:52 PM : Start Price: $20.89 GM Score: 2.47 Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give their vacuum one more chance? Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 1 (GM) radmtom (31.09) Submitted: 5/09/08 2:15 PM : Start Price: $20.32 GM Score: -0.98 No decent product stategy, no ethics (therefore no customer loyalty), overpaid, aging and disloyal workforce, and diminishing market share will continue its slide down. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 1 (GM) climate (80.81) Submitted: 5/09/08 6:40 AM : Start Price: $20.88 GM Score: 2.06 Fix gas price incentive is a hedge on oil that they are going to lose big Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 1 (GM) OrigamiDuck (41.38) Submitted: 5/09/08 2:38 AM : Start Price: $20.88 GM Score: 2.06 The Challenger? Gas prices over 4$ a gallon and their new product is the Challenger? These guys are not seeing the writing on the wall... or the Prius's on the street. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out.
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