A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR SAVING THE LAST, TWO GREAT AMERICAN AUTOMOTIVE COMPANIES Key Steps to the Plan Included in LOOK OUT AMERICA : Combine both Ford and GM's technical departments of Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Research and Development resources to enhance their chance for survival. The newly consolidated technical group will now be able to compete head-to-head with its rivals from overseas. The new group will share technology across the board for the betterment of both companies just the way technology was shared in WW II. Focus on fixing the Spiritual Problem. The American auto industry is in a life and death struggle and there is no room for politically correctness Find qualified men or women who understand automotive technology and who can really do the job. Get the MBA's out of operational management positions because they don't know "Jack" about technology. Ford and General Motors must be led by creative, visionary leaders. An individual with a technical background, who spent most of their time in operational and product release positions, and understands automotive technology. The following virtues establish the character of the corporation. Leaders must insure that Vision, Trust, Honesty and Integrity are practiced and flow easily throughout the entire corporate culture. Respect for the truth is the formation of the morality for the corporation. Establish QUALITY as the main issue that provides value and excitement for the customer. Build vehicles using 24 Sigma Quality Control Methods. Quality must be engineered and factored in at the inception of part design. Ford and GM must project a message that all of their vehicles are becoming cleaner and more fuel-efficient every day because visionary engineers are again running the companies. Every day these issues become more important as oil supplies are costlier and their use is polluting the planet with greenhouse gases. Develop vehicles that have an excellent appearance, remain in style and still have value before the vehicle wears out. The U.S. Government needs to establish the Department Of Industry and Technology (DoIT). As a nation, we need to stop the de-industrialization America Ask every American with a driver's license to submit ideas to the (Ford and GM) Yankee Ingenuity Program. Develop a Marketing, Sales, and Service Plan to support a Lease/Recycle Program. Establish a 100% Lease/Recycle Program goal by 2018. Encourage every American citizen to support the U.S. government's next round of stimulus money to include stock in only true American Automotive Companies. This way every tax-paying American citizen would become a stockholder of both Ford and General Motors. Make certain that every Ford and GM investment is an "investment for the future." Establishing this strategic plan will allow for the survival of the last two American automobile companies as one, otherwise they are LIVING ON BORROWED TIME."