Re: New "What Ifs?"

Posted by Steve203 On 2014/6/12 11:32:53

My final take is that our forum members gave a more thoughtful look at the issues and the magazine's take is a bit over-simplified.

My advantage over a columnist with a deadline is that I'm retired, and rather than go south in the winter, start looking into something I have wondered about, so I have a lot more time to devote to research, like the 6 months plus spent on Packard this year.

The columnist, by ignoring the cut off of defense contracts and the sale of Briggs, is ignoring the major influences on management's decision making as Nance and company were forced to scrap their long term plans, deprived Packard of needed profits, and live in a continuous crisis mode.

...he does have some new thoughts about separating the model development schedules for Packards and Clippers

What was he thinking of? Personally, given that part of Packard's problem was too few units to amortize development costs over, I don't see how creating more platforms to develop would address that problem.