Ghosn Says GM Should Have Listened To Him In 2006 And Avoided Bankruptcy

FIAT already did a mistake taking Chrysler. Don't do the same thing with GM Renault, don't mess up with this!

— OBSERVER1984 (View Profile)

Posted on 11/20/2009 1:55:15 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

Ghoson wanted to get his hands on GM tech and in the exchange GM had less to gain from the deal so the merger fell throgh.

— 1UAW (View Profile)

Posted on 11/20/2009 2:01:28 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -5   

the french are so perfect.

— 1995e34 (View Profile)

Posted on 11/20/2009 2:03:11 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Ghosn is smoking crack. GM was a disaster, any alliance would've brought Nissan down with it. It's like asking your healthy 15 yr old kid to carry your fat ass up a mountain when a huge tsunami threatens to wipe that mountain out.

Bush/Cheney tanking the economy proved it was a great idea not to have collaborated. Every manufactorer suffered big losses last year wether they were allied or independent, luxury or econo, poor reliability to best reliability. How is an alliance going to stop a situation that never should not have happen?

— Badgewhore (View Profile)

Posted on 11/21/2009 5:40:27 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

The smartest thing Ghosn ever did was being CEO when Nissan happened to merge with Renault. Renault had absolutely nothing to do with the designs that Nissan came out with the same year they merged. Clear case of taking credit where credit isn't due.

Last I checked, Nissan isn't exactly smashing any sales numbers nor have they come out with any designs to push them ahead. Nissan has for the most part been static since Ghosn took all the credit.

Buddy should stick with Europe where results aren't mandatory, or go back to Brazil and work for an oil company so he can claim that he used the force to find the next big oil patch that's already been discovered.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 11/21/2009 6:40:48 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

I forgot to mention that the only thing this guy can take credit for is trying to transplant those ugly tooth grilles over from Renault.

The Titan, Armada, Pathfinder and QX designs were all developed after they acquired Nissan and look at how they flopped. Great job Carlos.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 11/21/2009 6:42:18 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Who is this assh*le Ghosn? Instead of whining about the London Olympics committee using BMWs rather than Leafs, and now saying GM should have listened to him -- Ghosn should maybe try managing his own brands. Nissan's hideous, porky-looking products (Maxima, Armada, Murano) are causing Nissan to lose market share on a daily basis. And then there's Infiniti with the equally grotesque FX, EX, QX and M models. Ghosn needs to get a grip and take a look at who he actually is: A bad manager of a mediocre car company that's not going to exist much longer unless someone throws his ass back to the French.

— grysko (View Profile)

Posted on 11/22/2009 11:02:33 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

The tittle is very misleading.

— M53R (View Profile)

Posted on 11/23/2009 6:44:10 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

for all you guys' criticisms of Ghosn, it isn't like GM was being run by geniuses.

they tried to take over Fiat. then when they came to their senses and realized they'd lose more than they'd gain, they had to PAY fiat yet another BILLION BUCKS just to BACK OUT of the deal!

— XYZZ (View Profile)

Posted on 11/24/2009 8:03:24 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

ghosn also was CEO at VW for awhile.

look at what an EMPIRE vw is now. maybe ghosn COULD HAVE created a GM-Renault-Nissan automotive empire.

— XYZZ (View Profile)

Posted on 11/24/2009 9:00:12 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Actually, VW was hurting image and productwise until about 8 years ago. Kind of makes you wonder if VW fortunes changed once they unloaded Carlos.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 11/28/2009 12:34:51 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1