This article is well sourced and presents credible evidence that the future trend for US automakers will focus predominantly on overseas manufacturing, at least until such time as US factories can be retooled for smaller vehicles. I would have liked to know more about how the Big Three plan to handle legacy costs.

This article lacks depth and data. The obvious hyper-links were essentially for window dressing and not essential to the story in any way. The author identifies Chrysler as being 'taken-over' by Cerberus without the requisite hyper-links explaining the additional failures of the Daimler Benz marriage and financial two-step that was done in order to hold shareholder confidence - while market share played second fiddle to prevent their bonds dropping like a rock. Speaking of market share (I elaborated below) the simple fact that the author refers to market share as though it were an act of God as opposed to a direct result of leadership is astounding. This at the very least, would point the reader in a direction of creating some ... More »