A generation ago, then-Chrysler Corp.’s manufacturing guru, Denny Pawley, told me something I’ve never forgotten:We’re not afraid of the Japanese, I was surprised to hear him say. We’re afraid of General Motors. If they can ever get that place turned around, they’ll crush us all.
General Motors Co., for much of the past generation a financial laughingstock amid much of the investor, media and Silicon Valley classes, is blowing the doors off — principally in the North American market that proved so fraught in the 1990s and 2000s. And its Sick Old Man in Europe, aka its Opel brand, appears finally on the mend.
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