"Maybe FASC's choice for Cal's replacement should be someone who owned a GM car dealership?"
Good idea. If it were a used-car dealership, then Cal's successor would have all the skills necessary to shift FASC stock to the unsuspecting masses.
"Only one careful owner on this fine FASC machine" ("before it was returned as unfit for purpose" remaining unsaid, of course).
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
H. L. Mencken