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John @ Oct 20th 2006 10:39PM
Haha, Kia is already hiring away a lot of talent from Ford, GM, Chrysler-Group. I mean, there are a lot of car-guys that love the auto industry, but they're getting destroyed by the crap that is stinking up Detroit. There are lots of people with automotive experience and enough sense about them to know that things aren't getting better at the Domestic places unless management is completely overhauled and the Union overhead gets trimmed out.
Also, I think everybody realizes corporate loyalty is worthless. Corporate loyalty to a domestic nameplate gets you about as far as... well not as far as an import... even though both will be fast to jack you in an instant to save costs. At least, if you're going to be in the auto industry, you would want to be aligned with a firm looking to make inroads, instead of a company whose idea of a turnaround plan is to to have a decade's worth of meetings to discuss what is wrong with the current state of the company and how come the other guys can do it so well. Unless Ford or GM have their upper management cleansed from top to bottom and you get some cutthroats in to clean things up, Kia will remain way more attractive to the talent that adore a job working with cars.
I almost wish that a certain Blue Oval would take the Bold Move in going bankrupt and then sell off its assets to Ford Motor Credit... and then have Ford Motor Credit run things with the labor unions dissolved and the upper-auto-management replaced. Ford, GM, and Chrysler can make some good cars - they just can't do it without certain handcuffs getting unlocked.