<VV> Fan dreams

[ScottyGrover at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/22/2008 10:55:24 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ronh at owt.com writes:

The REAL  problem is in the minds of all of those who think that GM had no 
engineers  and that everything on the engine was sketched up by accountants. 
That's  nonsense, of course, but keeps those who don't know any better  busy.
RonH



The real problem is that the engineers are given design problems that will  
never reach production, in order to keep the imaginative engineers happy and on 
 the payroll; the stuff that goes to production--well, the engineers design  
something that's REALLY good, but the bean-counters say" too expensive" and,  
unfortunately, the accounting department winds up providing the company's top  
executives.  That's what happened to Chrysler (I worked at Chrysler  
Engineering in Highland Park for a while in the '50's) and, although the cars  parked 
in the company's experimental garage were drivable (by privileged  
executives), their features seldom showed up on production cars.  Too  expensive, as the 
accounting department took over the company (Walter P. would  have been 
spinning in his grave.) And where is Chrysler Corporation now? DeSoto  was the first 
to go; Lee Iacocca, who was no engineer but paid more attention to  the 
engineers and stylists, made the company profitable again by getting out a  product 
that he, as a salesman (he was, when at Ford, responsible for the  Mustang) 
could get the public interested in and end Chrysler's reputation for  producing 
s***. But Iacocca retired and the bean-counters took over again.
 
Scotty from Hollyweird



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