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Peter DeLorenzo: Groupthink has driven model proliferation among automakers

May 23, 2019 Steve 0

“But the largest and certainly most demonstrable lemminglike behavior in this business is model proliferation. It’s loosely based on the philosophy that if a car company utilizes its vehicle architectures efficiently to create more models, […]

Groupthink

May 22, 2019 Steve 1

A tendency toward groupthink has been a chronic problem in the American automobile industry since the mid-50s. This was a key driver of the domestic automakers’ dramatic decline from the late-60s onward. More recently, foreign […]

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 […]