GM may survive, if you can believe this journalist's take. Of course, he's a Detroit journalist.

I should point out that I have a semi-emotional stake in the outcome.

I'd say the moves are in the right direction. The Pontiac/Saturn sport coups look good and get good mileage; so now more people can have nice looking and semi-practical cars. I know a few people who have shown interest (and at least one that has purchased) a new Tahoe with the 8 cylinder engine that drops 4 cylinders while highway cruising. That is innovative technology, though I wonder how useful it really is.

I am troubled by the commercial for the Tahoe "displacement on demand" technology which has the rocket launching with 8 engines then turning off 4 engines wit a jettison as the voice over states; "when GM sees good ideas, we adopt them".

I think the best thing going for GM is offering cockpit features at a lower prices. You can outfit a GM vehicle with Onstar, XM, GPS-DeeVeeDee Navigation, and DeeVeeDee entertainment system for much less than most foreign offerings. Besides most of those things requiring some sort of subscription charge (certainly helps GM's bottom line), they are not a major impact to fuel mileage yet are discriminators in resell.