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Re: integrated Volvo fully into its engineering structure
Posted by 50N40W [Email] (more from 50N40W) on Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:17:09
In Reply to: integrated Volvo fully into its engineering structure, Trev, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:42:09
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I was thinking about things like the communications bus. I recall Mulally was frustrated when he first arrived at Ford because they could offer MySync on a Focus but not on a Volvo because the communications networks were entirely different.
Figure about 1/3 each for comm, OBD, and controls on a typical automotive controller. Drawing a line between Mulally's reported reaction and the complexity of getting the network right may not have been perfectly accurate, but it still seems reasonable.
Regardless, the big reason is that there was a LOT more money in 2007 than there was in 2009 - and much less aversion to risk.
I am puzzled by some other comments about how post-bankruptcy GM should make decisions based on things other than their bottom line since they got a bail-out. It seems a little like advising a man recovering from the flu to get his head wet and stand in the wind since after all, he used a doctor once. Difficult position for me to understand, but it's a big world I guess.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Ford sells Volvo to the Chinese but GM won't sell, Mitch, Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:06:59
- Re: Ford sells Volvo to the Chinese but GM won't sell, Rob
, Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:21:24 - Chinese makes GM Cars, so why not Saab, Mysaab, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:03:32
- Re: Ford sells Volvo to the Chinese but GM won't sell, George K, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:44:18
- Because GM wanted Saab to die, nwas, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:09:28
- GM wants Saab to die, rm, Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:40:21
- +1, ChuckD
, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:02:25- Re: +1, Justin VanAbrahams
, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:21:47
- Because Volvo sold for $2B and Saab for $70M, dmz789qqq, Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:57:38
- Re: Ford sells Volvo to the Chinese but GM won't sell, 50N40W, Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:23:36
- integrated Volvo fully into its engineering structure, Trev, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:42:09
- Re: Ford sells Volvo to the Chinese but GM won't sell, ST, Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:58:28
- Lotus is likely a non-issue, steve, Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:32:51
- Why Wikipedia is an idiot website, Sam, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:37:54
- another article on Youngman using the Lotus name, ryan
, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:50:10 - Wikipedia isn't the issue, steve, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:04:14
- by the way, ryan
, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:47:23 - umm, ryan
, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:44:26
- Hear, Hear, ryan
, Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:42:19
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