Mike InMich

The Case for Making Bigger Cars

You are right that the big 3 have competitive advantage in bigger vehicles, especially trucks. But you are kid of ignorant of the fact that the federal government does not allow them to use this advantage via the blunt instrument of CAFE laws. You also don't mention that even trucks have CAFE laws, although a separate, higher standard.

So you suggestion that they compete at what they are good at is ridiculous. You need to talk to the feds to eliminate CAFE and replace it with gasoline taxes, which is wjat every other western nation uses to get small cars.

The big 3 never said they did not have the technology to make small cars. They said they can't make money on them due to the high labor costs. It takes just as many UAW people to put a door on a $15,000 Focus (Consumer's Report recommended buy, by the way) as on a $30,000 F-150. It is all about economics.