Why did GM take so long to respond to deadly defect? Corporate culture may hold answer

[Jim_Higgins]

Why did GM take so long to respond to deadly defect? Corporate culture
may hold answer
http://tinyurl.com/o29ctmq

[David E. Powell]

Very stupid. I have two friends with Cobalts and met a High School kid the other day who had his power steering conk out on him. (Fortunately no accident resulted.) People love this car, stupid of GM to Pinto-ize the car's image like this, especially when it could have been fixed so early on.

[David E. Powell]

P.S. The reason Federal Investigators didn't "Wake up sooner" might have been the billions the U.S. Gov't had invested in the bailout of GM.

[g***@gmail.com]

the classic old-style GM: Say as little as possible and, above all, keep the chief exec as far away from it as you can. "