从2005年通用汽车开始出现大幅衰退,到随后4年累计亏800亿美元,直至破产重组,时任通用汽车CEO瓦格纳注定在其中扮演“关键先生”角色。在《汽车往事:美国三大车企的衰败与复兴》(Once upon a Car:The Fall and Resurrection of America’s Big Three Automakers-GM,Ford,and Chrysler)一书中,有关他的三次挣扎历程——规模扩张、合并福特、赌注新能源计划首次浮出水面 Since 2005, General Motors began a sharp decline, to the subsequent four years, a total loss of 80 billion US dollars until the bankruptcy reorganization, when GM Wagner was doomed to play a “key” role. In his book The Ever After Car: The Fall and Resurrection of America’s Big Three Automakers-GM, Ford, and Chrysler, his three-time struggles - Scale expansion, the merger of Ford, stake new energy plan surfaced for the first time