Comment by Marcie Belles on December 1, 2009 at 11:01pm

Here are a few follow-up articles:

* from AP
* from the Detroit Free Press
* from Automotive News

And here's the text of the statement by GM Chairman Ed Whitacre Jr. about the executive change.

Comment by Marcie Belles on December 2, 2009 at 11:07am

Fritz Henderson is being blamed for the breakups of the Opel and Saab deals, but didn't those occur under Chairman Ed Whitacre's watch?

Comment by David Ruggles on December 2, 2009 at 2:32pm

This will really inspire faith in GM's board, axing a guy with no one in the wings to take his place. All of this at the most critical time in company history. I didn't like Whiteacre from the beginning. Who does he think he is doing commercials, Lee Iacocca? He couldn't carry Iacocca's .... well, you know.

I've been upset with Fritz ever since he was put up to lying to Congress and the country about dealer terminations by the government Task Force. I've been disappointed by the Saturn debacle, but how was that Fritz's fault? I have been surprised by the Opel affair, and wonder how the Task Force allows GM to use U.S. taxpayer money to pay off foreign governments. And the SAAB affair is a mystery, and probably not all that important in the scheme of things. We might have to wait for the next "tell all" book to get the real dope!

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