And we couldn’t agree more on GM’s management: see our post here:

“Twenty years ago this writer sat in a class of MBA students and listened to Roger Smith — yes, the GM Chairman in Michael Moore’s “Roger and Me” — state that GM quality was as good as any in the world. This was at the same time that many segments of American manufacturing were collapsing in the face of import competition and auto execs were scurrying to Japan to see how much of Toyota’s system they could copy. Smith lost that class of proto-yuppies right then and there. … it sounds like GM management is still only partially connected to reality.”

and our most recent post:

“None of this “let’s agree to disagree” PR-speak obviates the truth of Neil’s April remarks that GM is a “morass of a business case.” GM can cover its ears, shut its eyes, and hum all it wants. But at $36, their current stock price is a little below where it was for much of the 1960’s. In the same period the Dow Jones Industrial Average has grown 16x. That is serious underperformance. And Dan Neil didn’t cause it.”

You’re about as wrong as you can be because Neil drove that car nearly 2 months ago and told me he liked it. He had no reason to gloss over anything in private e-mail.

As for the graph you quote, what he’s saying is the car feels solid and well attached to the road.

As for the rest of what you wrote, do really trust search engines to provide intelligent answers?

Oh, and if I were GM shareholder, I would want Rick Waggoner fired.