GM Situation in US getting worse

[Fordman1]

Originally Posted by The Monty

But the volume would still be the same, same amount of cars being sold, but to a different manufacturer.
Or am I still missing something? lol.

Ford won't be able to increase their volume for quite some time. And by no more than a few percentage points.

The supplier's also won't have the raw material in the 'pipeline' for the unique Ford or other parts that require a volume increase, and the manufacturing process for the manufacture of those unique Ford parts may not be capable of significantly increasing in the short to medium term.

We are talking about 1000's of different parts here, NOT a couple of tyres.

The logistics in just "turning" Ford parts on and stopping the "GM / Chrysler" ones is not that simple. It may be possible over 12 months, but not weeks.

Before that happens the supplier will have gone bust....