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...number of dealers that sell them. GM will sell or close Saturn. Pontiac and Saab could end up joining Oldsmobile and Plymouth in the hood-ornament graveyard because the cost of supporting a brand with a small market share doesn't make sense, nor does maintaining a dealership network created for an era when Chevy and Buick could support separate distribution systems. GM plans to reduce its dealer count 27%, to 4,700. "Certainly, having seven or eight brands for 25% of the market is far more than you need," says Ron Harbour, the partner in charge of consultancy Oliver...
...wouldn’t buy a cell phone for a network that doesn’t exist,” he said...
Agassi said the last important aspect of Better Place’s business plan is the adoption of a system similar to the cellular phone network business model, in which drivers pay for the miles they drive. Agassi said that in this way transportation becomes a “sustainable service” to which drivers can subscribe...
...These are outstanding places,” he said. “There is a network that makes it possible to be an observant Jew anywhere in the world...
...What's unclear is if the Big Three, particularly GM, can last that long. Ford said in the recovery plan it submitted Tuesday that it can survive through 2009 without a loan - provided neither one of its two competitors goes bankrupt and drags down the industry's entire supplier network. But Chrysler asked for $7 billion in loans, and GM said it would need $4 billion by the end of this month and upwards of an additional $14 billion next year to survive. All told, the companies have asked the Federal Government for $34 billion (including a $9 billion emergency...