On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors Paperback – January 1, 1990

This is an incredible book. It's a deeper view inside disfunctional corporate culture, then you will find anywhere else.You may never look at another General Motors vehicle in the same way again.

Book condition was as described. I am totally satisfied with my purchase.

Small print for us older folks.

DeLorean certainly forecast the coming bankruptcy of GM in this book. For anyone fascinated by automobile production, this is a good read. Given DeLorean's managerial insights, the book is almost a managerial textbook, but it reads like a novel.

Clearly, DeLorean is one of the more intriguing figures of the post-War auto industry. At this point, he's at the top of the game and quite in love with himself. The book provides a great backboard for someone trying to understand his later foibles.

John DeLorean was good.

Outstanding book!

I read this book about 1980 when I graduated from Western Michigan University with a BS in Automotive Engineering Technology. I was almost rubbing shoulders with the American auto industry as a member of the student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers and I interviewed with Ford and Chrysler in 1980, Chrysler guy said that by 1985 their whole line was going to be front wheel drive, front wheel drive was the new big thing then. This book gives you an idea about things wrong with GM, why they would have problems with their first front wheel drive car Chevy Citation. It was said anything really new and innovative came out of the smaller companies, ie Ford and Chrysler, not conservative GM. To meet CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standards GM created their Cadillac V-8-6-4 engine that under low load would cut out to only running on 6 and even 4 cylinders to save fuel and a gasoline engine they converted to diesel, the gasoline engine block/head was not strong enough to support the higher combustion pressure of diesel. Both of these stopgap measures to achieve CAFE standards didn't work out too good for GM. And remember this was before precise computer controlled fuel injection systems so it was difficult for them to meet the CAFE standards and emission standards, or so they said.Our student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers built a fiberglass body sliding 2 door methanol powered turbocharged fuel injected transverse front wheel drive car that we had at the 1980 SAE Cobal Hall Detroit annual expo that I worked on too for my senior project. I remember there was another bright yellow car there, a Briggs and Stratton electric car which was before Lithium batteries so the batteries were so heavy the car had 2 axles with 4 wheels/tires in the back to support the weight of the batteries.Great memories I have of all this.