http://carofthecentury.com/ The more GM and the leaders of Detroits auto industry for the last half-century (1960-2010...GM's current stock price in Oct.,2011 is off nearly 50% from year to date high) strayed from the traditions of GM becoming the business worlds first design powerhouse, the harder and faster they spiraled downward. As we know, knowledge is power; if people didn't understand how the auto industry's success was truly created, they couldn't understand the industry's undoing - or hold industry leaders accountable. So the further American automakers wandered from these practices, the more vested an interest they had in burying or destroying them. And as the man who invented and/or first implemented these rules and principles, Harley Earl's story naturally posed a threat. Education is the antidote to ignorance and telling Earl's untold true story is just the kind of education - or, rather, re-education - needed to reverse the American auto industrys destructive trend. At the end of the last five consecutive decades, Detroits automakers have repeatedly lost significant amounts of market share.
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