VIDEO: GM's Mary Barra to staff: "No more crappy cars." - Mary Barra, who is a top contender to eventually run General Motors, is considered to have one of the hardest jobs in the global auto industry #FortuneMPW #MaryBarra
+Fortune Magazine Eath to fortune Magazine ! Mary is still making crappy cars ! Now the Police cars have steering problems ! Whats next ?? Stop praising these corporate idiots who pay themselves too much and produce crap vehicles !
Yes they are we have a crappy Astra 2.0 hatch never seen so much plastic crap in a car ever ! Breakdowns are a monthly occurance ! Cheers Mary ! Best advice to car buyers Don´t buy a GM EVER !
Checking in from 2021. Every Chevy bolt (the only EV they have delivered) ever sold has been recalled due to hazardous batteries which spontaneously self ignite, can’t charge overnight, and can’t park inside and yes they have been banned from parking garages across the country.
She was at the Pontiac factories,wonder why they are dead now?,she drove couple cars,yes....Fiero,Cavalier,Boneville,Chevelle,Malibu and other GM crap and call them other cars?
I own a 2006 lexus rx. just passed 300k miles, no hesitation it will cruise to 400k - only two tuneups. the last tuneup took in at 275k for what I thought would be a major tuneup, since the last one was at 150k. They came back and said they just refreshed the fluids, that's all that was required, so I guess really only one official tuneup. And if you know Lexus dealerships, they are very thorough. I had a GM car once, it crapped out at 95k.
"No more crappy cars".....What a visionary !? What an inspiration !? Probably a good manager of GM,s demise while picking up a big check for failing on the way out ….)))
Tell us about General Motors Corporation ignition switches and the cover up , Mary . Tell us about Chevrolet pickup trucks : Fuel lines Brake lines Cracked windshields Rusted frames Brake failure , rust jacketed wheel sensors
The CT6 is one of the best cars they have to offer. Self driving plus all the technology you can imagine. Compared to all; BMW, Mercedes, etc and from handling to acceleration; the 3.0TT although a luxury car it drives like a sport sedan, but with a lot of room! Why are they killing this car?
The only reason I can possibly think that GM will kill the CT6 is because of the new XT6 crossover thing. A sad shame, because CT6 is a really attractive car, but the XT6 is pretty bland.
I did a test every truck that passed my driver side mirror mostly parallel more that 1mph head on I wrote down. 44 GM, 17 Ford, 15 dodge/ram, 3 toyota.
As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at GENERAL MOTORS CO, Mary T. Barra made $21,905,256 in total compensation. Of this total $2,100,000 was received as a salary, $4,956,000 was received as a bonus, $3,250,003 was received in stock options, $10,737,570 was awarded as stock and $861,683 came from other types of compensation. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2017 fiscal year. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer GENERAL MOTORS CO Fiscal Year Ended in 2017 View local and national averages for salaries $2,100,000Base Pay$4,956,000Bonus + Non-EquityIncentive Comp $7,056,000 Total Cash Comp$10,737,570Stock Award Value$3,250,003Option Award Value $13,987,573 Total Equity$861,683Total Other $21,905,256 Total Compensation
General Motors, you can do it, but your future will never look like the old corporate model again. I doubt Barra or any of the present management even have a clue about the future, they are too entrenched in the past. How one dresses is 1950's. There is a new path, but not with the current cars and management.
MBA from Stanford , Bsc in electrical engineering and 30 years experience, still cant fix GM. I with a high school diploma could fix GM in a few weeks.
I've made the mistake of buying a new 2015 Buick Verano a month ago after owning mostly Japanese cars for over four decades. Biggest mistake I've made with a large $$ purchase ever. The car is riddled with fit and finish issues including multiple paint defects and body panel alignment problems. One of the paint defects was even rusting at the time of delivery and the rust is now continuing to spread under the paint. Here's a link to pictures showing only some of the issues this car was delivered with. www.flickr.com/photos/131226313@N05/ After a month of trying to get GM to own up to their quality control failures I've met with a GM rep today that couldn't care less about GM's stated commitment to quality and their customer's new car ownership experience. I had actually believed about half of what I've read and heard about the "new" GM from interviews like this one above and thought it was safe to trust GM again. They have now proven to me beyond any doubt that I was an idiot to think that.
GM (the new PR name for General Motors) has lost it's lofty position as world's largest corporation, and now relies on a woman to PR a dying company. Sad, but the world will be much better in 2030 when GM is dead and other world car companies provide reliable vehicles for the people...not market segments.
GM isn't dying anymore than Chrysler. They fucked up and they know it. Barra is paying for those fuckups and it will take time. but if Ford and Chrysler made it so will GM.
Trevrz1 I agree, but battling back seems like a loser trying to regain some sense of former glory. The corporate culture was not healthy; it was not a world economy issue, but a corporate greed to ignore, deny and keep raking it in culture. GM had better start making cars for the people, reliable, economical, affordable, nice design (don't say VW)....get Barra out of her corvette/camero mode and into the future....
GM focuses a lot on their higher priced models but need to improve Chevrolet as well. Cadillac has won awards left and right and their quality is now said to be back on par with European makes. Buick has also been doing very well. Chevrolet is where the problems are, as they don't devote enough attention to these cars, and quality and safety suffers.
Most issues stem from older, discontinued models Brian. I would know I had a Cobalt and now have a Sonic. Needed a solid, good mpg for my business. The 'balt really was bargain bin and cheaply engineered (minus the motor) C-segment car and the new car is def a solid contender to accent, Rio, and Fiesta. Night and day. But it will take a while to permeate the American public. Much like Ford took a while after the Pinto debacle.
Her job is so simple . She dances around the problem she has and does not give a solid answers. Everything is a tradeoff "Quality vs price" it ends right there. All she has to do is benchmark the leading vehicle in each segment and build a vehicle equal or better . Then all you do is sit back and watch the market reaction and make adjustments as required. Toyota and Honda make good cars at a good price point in America why can't or won't GM?
...It is not up to her..is called "Planned obsolescence" and lies down there at a small room in the engineering dept....meanwhile in japan...................................
Telling staff “ no more crappy cars “ wasn’t & it’s that your responsibility? I’m not a fan of how the workers and the American people have been treated by GM.
Pleasant interview. Not exactly hard hitting but a competent job. My takeaway? Why on earth do you allow the ads to come on at triple volume? For me this speaks magnitudes on Fortune magazine's technical incompetency. Do you even listen to your final production? Pathetic.
American car companies are known for trucks and muscle cars, but lately I've seen sedans coming up. But they're going to have a hard time changing public's mind due to horrible sedans built only for profit. Hyundai is still trying to shake that mantra.
No it hasn't always...My '67 Cadillac was built like a tank and my '08 Cadillac DTS hasn't let me down yet. The cheaper cars (Chevrolets) do need improvement.
You're probably right, but I hate giving up on U.S. companies. I watched the Zenith T.V. plant near me ship off to Mexico. It was one of the last, and now there's no more American T.V. companies. Hard to compete with dirt cheap labor and virtually no regulations abroad, I guess. I hope GM improves and keeps jobs here.
The Corvette sux? The Camaro sux? I don’t think so. GM used to make quality cars with powerful engines. I owned and drove a Pontiac. It was a great car! I don’t know what they are doing now. This CEO does not inspire confidence. She’s not a car person. Pontiacs were great rides but they got rid of the Pontiac brand back in 2008. Big Mistake! Its too late now. The chickens are coming home to roost.
It's very important to know!!!!!!!!!!! The GM customer service will be finished immediately after buying and receiving the new vehicle!!! Then there are problems, lots of visits to the garages, lots of liars in the garages, and total lack of customer service!!! Very dangerous to buy a car in GM!!! 👎👎👎👎😬👎👎😬
Yeah & she's in charge, ummm, maybe GM'S problems are MARY BARRA, trying to make a name for herself, at the people's demise, het rid of this person, if not GM be looking for another bailout, buy FORD PRODUCTS, BETTER AUTO'S , BETTER FOR THE PEOPLE.
Mary, I read John Z De Lorean's "On A Clear Day, You Can See General Motors" and then "The Fall and Rise of General Motors". Really, did they "Rise"? And then after the "Buy Out" some ten years ago, nothing seems to change at GM. I have looked at GMs, but I would never buy a GM because compared to Asian and German cars, you still produce "crappy cars". I know how you people think. You produced a car with an ignition switch problem that killed just over 100 people and nobody is in jail considering GM knew about the issue. As for the dress code at 4:08, De Lorean was the first to do so in the 60s. Sorry, but I can't take GM too seriously.
No more crappy cars huh , I work next door to a Chevy dealership and a friend of mine who works there said he has had several new Silverados that had the high pressure fuel pump that crapped out at 75 miles yeah high quality there. Not to mention their new cars and trucks are made in Mexico and China yeah they’re making great cars.
No more crappy cars= Must get 36 MPG or more. All electronics packages are standard. Mandates to dealships must not replace good tires put at on factory. Doors having mutliple notches for various sized parking lots. Many American cars only have 2 notches and those are not enough to prevent scratches in tight lots. For muscle cars fire the sales men who sell the cars with all weather tires on them. #ripoff.
GM is not General Motors any longer. Their PR people are parading Barra to every media venue...just another sign of a weak business. Buy anything else, avoid "GM" they are dying (as are their customers).
Very impressive. Mary Barra seems to be perfect for CEO job. Z06 is an awesome start. I think the Z06 will kick butt on anything below 300k! C5 Camaro mostly sucks though(accept LE and z28) I'm sure C6 Camaro will be lighter, smaller(too fat now) ...as an example, the turbo BRZ :)..driving feel is super important. The Camaro drives like a fat muscle car(old GM style). The FRS/BRZ drives like a motorcycle fun, light and easy.
NO GM....spend 30Grand on a car that one month later starts having issues and the local dealers say its normal and they wont do anything about nor will they let you drive another one to prove that the issues appearing in the vehicle are in fact NOT NORMAL for a brand new 30K car..DONT DO IT
black guy been desighn cars for 40 years he started about 1973 when the chevy truck came out with 4 head lights and all that stupid chrome on sides yah go gm go
Good luck Ms. Barra. After decades of mismanagement and "crappy cars" the buying public will be wary of being victimized again by buying a GM product again.
maybe it's time for "GM" to give up the Durant 1908 model of corporate growth and begin to cross-share it's european models and american models and move their dealers into the future... the time of "different markets" is over.
They already have. The last few years of Saturn were re-badged Opel's as were the Cadillac Catera and their only BEV. The last gen GTO's were AU Holden's. Their purchase of Saab killed the company.
Mary Barra is exactly the right boss at the right time for GM. She obviously has the education and experience to run the company. But she clearly also has the insight and emotional intelligence needed to make the systemic changes needed. Those who keep harping on the GM quality problems of the past are missing the point. It is about the customer and the product. She knows what she is doing and GM will lead the industry under her direction.
As I was saying... This isn't about GM being better than Lexus or whatever you drive, the point is that they're getting better, or at least trying to make a better go of it.
