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Detroit has not been able to adjust to the global attack on its antiquated mindset regarding what a car should be for a user. Foreign makers have made high quality cars for decades, but Detroit still makes cars that fail in a few years, just like in the '50's. At one time I was not sure if junky Detroit cars everywhere was the result of owners neglecting them because they were bad cars, or that they were just crummy no matter what the owner did to care for them. Now I know...they are both.

No bailouts for any business, banks nor autos. They never work. Make it or break it on their own is they only way. Being in Detroit with aggressive unions is a real problem but not the entire problem(any excuse will do?)as Detroit wants you to think, as the main problem is cheap components and planned obsolescence along with a marketing-only mindset. Quality anything is way down on the list. "Make it look nice in the showroom, then sell, sell,sell!"

People are no different in Ohio or Tennessee or Mississippi than they are in Detroit, so why does Ohio(Honda)build a much better car? Modern attitude+ training+quality engineering, components and build= employee involvement. Detroit will not accept this so it has none of these, as it still stuck in its old time "glory days" wondering what happened and still thinking it is all someone else's fault. Left alone, Detroit will put itself out of its own misery soon.