1998年,里克·瓦格纳(Rick Wagoner)在重组通用汽车(General Motors)北美业务之后曾经说过,历史 表明,我们不知道未来将发生什么,此 后他出任北美业务总裁。今天,瓦格纳 已是这家将要丧失全球领袖地位的汽 车制造商的董事长兼首席执行官,看 来他当年不排除出现进一步剧变可能 性的做法是明智的。在《金融时报》专 家们就2006年的下列预测中,通用汽 车是否将陷入破产境地,也是要予以 回答的重要问题之一。 In 1998, Rick Wagoner said after restructuring General Motors North America that history shows that we do not know what will happen in the future and since then he has been president of North American operations. Today, Wagner is the chairman and chief executive of the car maker that will lose its global leadership, and it seems clear he did not rule out the possibility of a further cataclysm in that year. It is also one of the key questions to be answered whether the General Motors will go bankrupt in the following forecast by the Financial Times experts in 2006.