General Motors and Ford are suffering because they have to discount their cars to sell them.
They have to discount the cars, because they have overproduced for demand.
They have overproduced, because their employees are unionized, and they have too many plants they can't afford to operate at half-output.
If they are going to survive, they need new products that the public will latch onto.
They NEED to stop producing 1998 Tauruses and selling them as program cars.