Looking at this from the inside out at GM the issue is very simple. There is nobody looking out for the company as a whole. There is plenty of manuevering inside the company to make the small niches work. The people that make the decisions make them to forward their own causes and line their own pockets. I see big wigs come and go every few years. One thing they all have in common is that their pockets are full when they leave. That's how they attract the major vultures like Steve Miller. He arrives, he lines his pockets with millions, he leaves without doing a thing to make the company better. They are all pimps reaping the profits of the aging body of GM.