Mercedes' New Boss Rolls Up His Sleeves

Business Week Online ^ | 17 October 2005 (Mag date) | Gail Edmondson

[lowbuck]

Layoffs are just the beginning. Can Zetsche fix production and quality woes?

Only four weeks into the job, Mercedes Car Group chief Dieter Zetsche stunned employees on Sept. 28 by ramming through a program to cut 8,500 jobs at the German auto maker -- 9% of its German workforce.

[lowbuck]

Sort of sounds like the articles in the US from the 1980's about the auto industry!!

[The Great RJ]

Mercedes and the US automakers should take a lesson from the Korean company Hyundai. Their new CEO fired thousands of bean counters, hired more engineers and set out an uncompromising standard for quality and reliability backed by an unprecedented 10 year warranty.

[B4Ranch]

Now if they'll just double the size of the vehicles I'll buy a couple.