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Another interesting part of the volleyball road trips is the infamous van ride with Coach Lem at the wheel...
...rides are hell," Kathy says, "It's bad enough when we take unknown side streets and unmarked roads to get to the games, but the rides home are the worst. Imagine fifteen smelly girls packed into a van not made to hold half that many with a psycho at wheel...that's a road trip...
...among consumers. Admits president Reuss, with a candor uncharacteristic of GM's inner sanctum: "In the early and mid-1980s, we let a lot of people down. We disappointed customers with some of our products' quality, reliability and durability. And as we were going through the change from rear-wheel drive to front-wheel drive, we had too many cars that looked alike...
...often seen driving a motorcycle near his home in the sedate suburb of Bloomfield Hills, where he keeps a fleet of old cars he likes to tinker with. His engineering feats have become part of the company lore. In his early career he designed the front-wheel-drive transmission on the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado, and in the 1970s he was the leader in one of GM's biggest breakthroughs: the catalytic converter, a revolutionary antipollution device. Stempel has been groomed well for the chairman's post, having served as head of several divisions: Chevrolet, Pontiac, GM's Adam Opel subsidiary...
Stempel's biggest challenge is to shake up a bureaucracy that has stifled innovation. On that count he is amply qualified. His communication skills have been recognized ever since he was first sent on the road in 1966 to persuade skittish dealers of the merits of the front-wheel-drive Toronado. Later he helped defuse a bitter environmental fight at a major new plant site. Associates say he has a photographic memory for both faces and statistics. While Stempel was general manager of Chevrolet in the early 1980s, he gave a detailed presentation of 17 different vehicles, ranging from...