GM starts up rear-wheel-drive Zeta platform plans. Again.

As for GM's problems, they could well be the result of a choking bureaucracy that feeds itself rather than keeping its focus on the market place and the customer. There just does not seem to be very much that is original & exciting about GM's products, and they have reduced themselves to being followers rather than leaders in an industry they once commanded. Maybe GM leadership ought to take some lessons from outside the industry, such as Steve Jobs and Apple where designers and visionaries with know-how are not trumped and compromised by those in engineering and manufacturing, not to mention the "green eye shaders"? There definitely needs to be more streamlining and integrated team effort at GM if it wants to really turn the corner. The American public would, I think, like to buy more U.S. brand name product, but it has lost its collective patience after such a long period of waiting for GM and "Detroit" to wake up. I dare say that if it was not for Daimler-Benz, Chrysler would probably still be floundering.