I would welcome new blood in the sharing of management decisions.
The beautiful diagonal coil-over shocks in earlier designs were sacrificed for the all important 84 mpg. They are now tucked inside the body to minimize wind resistance. They are no longer diagonal nor or they coil-over.
I liked the flares around the body's wheel suspension opening, but they too were sacrificed for the shake of the 84 mpg.
I do not like the poorer performance (acceleration) once quoted by Jeff Johnson in an interview.
These sacrifices were made (once again) for the all important (then) 84 mpg. This may have been done to get the ATVM loan. They may have been done simply because 84 mpg is personally important to PE (like the Elgin Dash).
Well, today gas is cheap again and 84 mpg is not important to people.
One of the "Must haves" should be "Happy customers".
These better styling and performance features will not drive away the economy mined customers, but will attract the "sporty" minded customers.
I like the idea of new blood with big bucks sharing in the management decisions. They may say: "Forget the 84 mpg. Forget the ATVM loan. We have the money. We'll go for styling and performance like we once did."
It is also a sign of poor CEO qualities when he makes important company decisions due to personal reasons. This happened when PE decided to put in the ugly Elgin dash to honor his father. Absolutely no CEO should have done that. It was a completely inappropriate decision. A CEO is suppose to put the company first over personal desires.
New blood sharing in management decision may have over-ruled PE on the Elgin dash.
The beautiful diagonal coil-over shocks in earlier designs were sacrificed for the all important 84 mpg. They are now tucked inside the body to minimize wind resistance. They are no longer diagonal nor or they coil-over.
I liked the flares around the body's wheel suspension opening, but they too were sacrificed for the shake of the 84 mpg.
I do not like the poorer performance (acceleration) once quoted by Jeff Johnson in an interview.
These sacrifices were made (once again) for the all important (then) 84 mpg. This may have been done to get the ATVM loan. They may have been done simply because 84 mpg is personally important to PE (like the Elgin Dash).
Well, today gas is cheap again and 84 mpg is not important to people.
One of the "Must haves" should be "Happy customers".
These better styling and performance features will not drive away the economy mined customers, but will attract the "sporty" minded customers.
I like the idea of new blood with big bucks sharing in the management decisions. They may say: "Forget the 84 mpg. Forget the ATVM loan. We have the money. We'll go for styling and performance like we once did."
It is also a sign of poor CEO qualities when he makes important company decisions due to personal reasons. This happened when PE decided to put in the ugly Elgin dash to honor his father. Absolutely no CEO should have done that. It was a completely inappropriate decision. A CEO is suppose to put the company first over personal desires.
New blood sharing in management decision may have over-ruled PE on the Elgin dash.
