Will dumping the Pontiac, Saab, and Saturn lines be enough to persuade Congress and the U.S. taxpayer …?

that GM has a plan for long-term survival that will work?
Reuters reported today (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081127/bs_nm/us_gm_pontiac ) that this is what General Motors is thinking about proposing to Congress, but is it enough?

It depends in good measure on whether the U.S. Congress accepts GM’s argument that its predicament is a result of a bad economy or whether it is in good measure the result of the following:

1. That General Motors dominated Consumer Reports’ 2008 list of the Least Reliable Vehicles, accounting for 30% of the entries on the list.

2. That General Motors dominated Consumer Reports’ 2008 list of the Worst of the Worst, accounting for 58% of the the entries on the list.

3. That General Motors dominated Consumer Reports’ 2008 list of Used Cars to Avoid, accounting for 41% of the entries on the list.

4. That General Motors dominated AutoOnInfo.net’s list of the Worst Automobiles of 2008, accounting for 30% of the entries on the list.

5. That General Motors dominated AutoOnInfo.net 2008 list of the Automobiles with Worst Engine Reliability, accounting for 43% of the entries on the list.

6. That General Motors dominated AutoOnInfo.net 2008 list of the Automobiles with Worst Transmission Reliability, accounting for 32% of the entries on the list.

7. That General Motors dominates Consumer Reports’ 2009 list of the Least Reliable Vehicles, accounting for 33% of the entries on the list.

8. That General Motors dominates AutoOnInfo.net’s list of the Worst Automobiles of 2009, accounting for 32% of the entries on the list.

9. That all of General Motors’ lines have a 2009 Composite Reliability Average much lower than Hyundai’s and even lower than Kia’s.

10. That General Motors’ 5-year Reliability Percentrank average is .31. For reference, Ford’s is .50, Nissan’s is .70, Honda’s is .84, and Toyota’s is .89.

11. That AutoOnInfo.net’s detailed reliability and durability studies suggest that a typical 3-year-old General Motors vehicle will be about as troublesome to own as a typical 19-year-old Toyota vehicle and a typical 26-year-old Honda vehicle, and a typical 5-year-old General Motors vehicle will be about as troublesome to own as a typical 25-year-old Toyota vehicle and a typical 35-year-old Honda vehicle. See the following pages on the AutoOnInfo.net website (both have the suffix .htm ):

DurabilityInformationPage11
DurabilityInformationPage12 .

12. That the reliability gap between 6-to-8-year-old Toyota vehicles and 6-to-8-year-old GM vehicles has increased from a spread of .54, on a scale 2 units wide, at the end of the 1980s to a spread of .84 at the end of the 1990s. See the following page on the AutoOnInfo.net website (without the space and with the .htm suffix):

AutoonInfo/ TheBottomLineonReliability .

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