Geeze, wouldn't you love to see a tape of some of the development meetings at GM to see just what was going on. My bet is sales was pressing for things engineering couldn't deliver with in the price sales wanted. Sales believed engineering could pull a miracle out of their butt but it didn't happen.

 
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