the ev1.  I worked for a little while at the factory that made them in lansing MI. The engineering budget was huge.  The line workers and the engineering staff had almost anything they wanted. People took pride in that car.  It rode great and handled well and had good acceleration.  What happened?  The decision was made at a very high level to kill it.  A lot of people took it personally, like they hadn't done a good job building it or something. Now, although I haven't seen the movie, they're just destroying them in the desert for scrap. Talking to some of the people who worked on them a lot more than I did, it's like having your cat killed.

BTW, GM cars get a bad rap.  They do get fairly good mileage.  It just can't be compared to hybrid technology.  We do a pretty good job of building them, too.  The problem is that the profit was in big cars and trucks and not in small ones, or at least that's the CW.  The Asians and the Europeans seem to be doing ok selling them, but that's another management decision.