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‘Detroit Mind’ led to collapse of U.S. automakers

April 27, 2022 Steve 56

(EXPANDED FROM 9/18/2020) “Detroit Mind” is the label Brock Yates gave to the worldview of U.S. automakers from the 1950s into the 1980s. This was epitomized by a focus on cars that were “too large, […]

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Auto industry consolidation: Putting profits ahead of robust competition

May 1, 2019 Steve 1

The necessity of industry consolidation has long been a popular idea among auto executives and pundits. The basic argument has been that the automotive industry — both in the U.S. as well as globally — […]

GM envy

December 1, 2018 Steve 0

GM envy is a tendency of other automakers — first domestic and later foreign — to slavishly copy the basic structure and strategy used by General Motors in its heyday. This has occurred despite General […]

Grosse Pointe myopians

November 1, 2018 Steve Comments Off

“Grosse Pointe myopians” is pejorative term that automotive journalist Brock Yates (2018) gave to the management class of domestic automakers in a review he wrote in 1968. That essay was subsequently expanded into a book, […]