AutomotiveAI-ILLUSTRATEDAI-ILLUSTRATED · 2023
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“To be perfectly honest, we knew the sedan was outdated three years before we discontinued it. But the tooling was paid off, margins were excellent, and nobody wanted to be the executive who killed a 'profitable' line. So we just kept making them while internally calling it 'the zombie car.'”
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Anonymous German Auto Executive
Former Product Planning Director
AI Honesty87%
Editor's note: Reveals the inertia and perverse incentives in corporate decision-making despite knowing market realities
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