Although I’m just your basic backyard mechanic, I can plainly see many synergy savings opportunities available should the “Big 3” try to seize them. I plan to use this webpage to post legitimate synergy savings suggestions that might be used to bring down production costs.

   One example; standardize all aspects of the brakes, brake lines, and other brake components including the tires and rims of Big 3 vehicles. By doing so, the Big 3 could leverage their suppliers by buying in singularly in greater bulk which could drive down the suppliers production costs and result in cheaper prices for the Big 3.

   All of the product lines that doesn’t identify individual brands could be standardized to provide an immense treasury trove of synergy savings opportunities.
 
   Example 2; the idea above could be tweaked further to achieve additional synergy savings by establishing an industry tire & rim standard based on weight, length, engine size or some other logic, that minimizes the large array of rim sizes, and leave non standard rims to after market manufacturers.
 
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