GM: Finding another person to blame

It was recently announced the GM no longer is the world leader in automotive sales. That honor belongs now to Toyota.

And this news is as newsworthy and surprising as dog bites man after man doesn't feed the dog, taunts the dog, patronizes and mocks the dog for 10 years. Finally...the dog bites.

GM"s been ignoring the American consumer for over 10 years now. Inferior quality, marketing campaigns centered around patriotism when their quality issues could no longer be denied, continuing to push SUVs when people wanted hybrids, claiming alternative fuel cars weren't possible when university teams were able to deliver one with a much lowe  budget, blaming their workers health care costs for poor sales (Course when sales were up you didn't hear GM complaining about these costs...), choosing legislation over competition, on and on.

GM's latest target for blame was the housing market and its current decline.  Odd. I didn't see GM thanking the then robust housing market for its sales records of a 3-4 years ago. And odd, the housing slump here in the US doesn't seem to impact Toyota's sales.

Another few more quarters like this and GM will be at the end of excuses. It'll start blaming the dogs for eating their cars.