By Leftlane Staff
Thursday, Sep 14th, 2006 @ 3:14 pm

Carlos Ghosn is perhaps the most important asset GM has to gain from an alliance with Renault- Nissan , but Mark Landler and Martin Fackler of the New York Times question whether he’d have much time to contribute to the struggling American automaker. “Renault and its partner, Nissan Motor, are not performing well right now — a fact their boss readily acknowledges,” the columnists say. And GM’s problems are considerably more complex than Renault or Nissan’s. “He’d be spreading himself too thin,” said Garel Rhys, director of the Center for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff University in Wales. “The problems at Nissan are nothing compared to the problems at General Motors.” In July, Ghosn made it clear he had no plans to take over the CEO role at GM in any possible alliance.

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