the bad news from gm and ford keeps on mounting :60,000 u.s. and canadian jobs will go in the next few years, 24 giant factories will close, north american losses in the billions will continue, retirement obligations will be curtailed, and on and on.clearly, motown needs anew approach, and it is natural the car industry to think the secret must be killer model-a toyota prius hybrid or some other concept-to replace the big pickups and suvs thar floated the american firms for 15 years
toyota is ;eading the charge against detroit-largely from inside the united states-with a fundamentally different management approach.
compard against toyota pravtices, gm's and ford's approach has five fatal weaknesses