Doug, what is killing the car companies is a combination of corporate greed, and the inability, or unwillingnes to changs. They were warned back in the 50's and they laughed at those upholstered rollerskates.

This sums it up:
The dinosaurs died out because they were unable to adjust to a changing enviroment.As far as I'm concerned the old Fordasaurus can lie in the bed it made.

Sometime back, the workers were being blamed for the crappy cars that Detroit was putting out, then they did a study, and found that the Hondas that were being assembled here were just as good as those coming from Japan.Clearly the crappy cars were the fault of the designers, not the assembly line workers.Another lie blown to hell.