Item No. 2: After a series of failed efforts to sell it, GM announced that its Hummer brand would be wound down. Hummer had a different problem with bigness than Toyota has. It wasnt that its production volumes were too high. In 2008 only 2,710 Hummers were sold. Rather, the outsize Hummer was simply too big too inefficient, too out of step with the times to succeed in a marketplace in which oil spiked to $150 per barrel and seems to have settled at a plateau above $70 a barrel. As the economy tanked, energy prices rose, and the spirit of the time shifted in favor of conservation, the gas-guzzling Hummer faced a double whammy : consumers had difficulty affording the vehicles high list price as well as difficulty affording its high operating price.
Size does matter when it comes to auto production. But not always in the way manufacturers think.
47. The example of Henry Fords assembly line suggests that the success in the auto industry was built on__________ .
48. According to the author, Toyotas fast growth in recent years was attributed to__________ .
49. CEO Akio Toyoda seemed to admit that Toyota betrayed its tradition of putting __________at top priority.
50. According to the passage, GM decided to gradually bring its Hummer brand to an end because of __________ .
51. According to the passage, whether purchasing or operating a Hummer, consumers found it hard to __________ .
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