FinanceDude: Give me some of your background in the automotive business. I don't think you know much about the company from your talk on the truck end of the business. Chevy should just stick to the pickups and GMC to the bigger tractor types. GMC Truck could stay around as the producer of big heavy duty items. Chevy should stick to cars and pickups as the entry level vehicle producer. Who should make the vans? I can see Pontiac being gone as they are too much the Chevy with a nicer interior. Little more sporty but Chevy can easily cover that spectrum ala Camaro. Buick might make it if the economy turns around a little as GM buyers need something between the Chevy and Cadillac. End result--I see Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac and GMC. My humble opinion after having spent 34 years with GM.
Does anyone out there remember all the companies/divisions that were once part of GM? Start with Oldsmobile, Fisher Body, Electromotive Diesel, Detroit Diesel, Allison Aircraft, Eastern Airlines, Hughes Aircraft and Direct TV, EDS (Ross Perot's company), Frigidaire, Delco Products, Aeroproducts (airplane propellers), etc. --the list goes on. Times change and GM has to change with it. If they file Chapter 11 and can't make it, the country better watch out. The word was that for every direct employee in the automotive industry there are six supporting it on the outside. Steel, rubber, glass, wire, fabric, paint, plastic, tooling, transportation,----.
Let's wish them well!