Helping American manufacturers can be costly
PostPosted:Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:40 pm
by Don
This is a defense-oriented site, but this article isn't actually related to defense and is a good read:
http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/gener ... a=1&c=1171
Didn't Warren Buffett did something similar too?
Re: Helping American manufacturers can be costly
PostPosted:Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:33 pm
by SineSwiper
That's an insane amount of repairs. Why doesn't shit like this get reported enough? Yet, when Toyota gets a pedal problem, it becomes the single biggest event in car history. Granted, it's the wrong part to fail, but any car shouldn't require replacement of 23 different parts in 8 months.
Re: Helping American manufacturers can be costly
PostPosted:Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:51 am
by Zeus
SineSwiper wrote:That's an insane amount of repairs. Why doesn't shit like this get reported enough? Yet, when Toyota gets a pedal problem, it becomes the single biggest event in car history. Granted, it's the wrong part to fail, but any car shouldn't require replacement of 23 different parts in 8 months.
The witch hunt against Toyota was nothing more than an opportunistic ploy by the rich-bitch American businessmen and their respective lobbies with interests in the car industry to try to take that tiny, little chink in Toyota's impenetrable armour built over the last 30 years and make it as big a hole they possibly could. Toyota's are still far superior to any American company's cars and always will be. They're just using propaganda to try and reverse 30 years of fuck-ups on their part in 1 year.