<![CDATA[Whitacre, New GM Chairman: "I Don't Know Anything About Cars"]]>

1.0 link 213611 <![CDATA[Whitacre, New GM Chairman: "I Don't Know Anything About Cars"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/10/whitacre-new-gm-chairman-_n_213611.html No car experience is necessary to take a top spot at the bankrupt icon of Detroit's automobile industry.

Believe it or not, the newly appointed chairman of GM, Edward Whitacre, Jr., has zero experience with cars -- and he's okay with that. According to Bloomberg:

"I don't know anything about cars," Whitacre, 67, said yesterday in an interview after his appointment. "A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I...

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