I recently came across a blog posting about the biggest mistakes the Detroit Three made, everything from trying to become financial services companies to borrowing money to pay dividends


to using rental companies to hide overproduction. The total wasted came to around US$50 billion.

So, WI the Big Three hand't blown all that money doing stupid things? WI, instead, they'd focused on building better cars? What might they have done, instead? What products might have come out? Would they be more profitable? Would Chrysler & GM have avoided bankruptcy?
Starting from, let's say, the approval of the Mustang II: it still uses the Pinto platform, but gets better suspension, a higher-tune 2.6 or 2.8 V6 stock (optional higher-tune 289; maybe a turbo 2.3?), & a new name, say Arabian. (Down the road, the 2.3 intercooled turbo of the Sierra & the dual-plug Ranger head.) Give them publicity with "Charlie's Angels", same as OTL...
Anything else?