Howard Lovy wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
Pictured here are General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz and General
> Electric Co. plastics chief Greg Adams in a grip-and-grin after they
> announced a partnership on the all-electric Chevy Volt concept car.
> I'll have more to say on the Volt later.
>
> This show was really the beginning of an education (interrupted) for
> me. Here, I learned that the Detroit area still is the automotive
> capital of the world. It is no longer the automotive manufacturing
> capital of the world, a loss of status that has contributed to the
> region's economic decline and exodus of workers.
>
> However, it remains the global automotive engineering capital, which
> does give me hope for the future. Just ... need ... to ... hang ...
> on ... long ... enough ...
>
No doubt, they will spend millions on catchy slogans while building cars which will have expensive failures between the time the warranty is out and 100,000 miles. Of course you can buy and expensive extended warranty to cover the cost. LOL