junkhill

The Rise of Toyota and the Demise of the American Auto Industry

Why don't you just move back to Japan if it's so great there! Then you can live in a 12X12 cement cubical on the top of a sky scraping sardine can like most of the Japanese auto-workers do. You may not have a market position but you obviously have a political/patriotic position that is anti-American. Unions and the liberal federal support of unions as well as the liberal media fostering of anti-American national and business sentiment are at least half the problem with the American auto industry. They've created a climate such that anything that is foreign must be better than anything American. And how can an American company demand anything, especially quality, of a worker that can't be let go! In spite of all this at least GM hasn't collapsed and has made some profit recently...a point you obviously chose to omit because it didn't fit in your anti-American template...and improved quality. If a foreign car has an issue, the psycology of the foreign car buyer is it's only a minor problem because the selfish nature of the thought process and ego to buy a Japanese car won't allow them to admit that they made a mistake. While the constant hammering of doom and gloom from articles such as this will cause an weak-minded GM owner to say they'll never buy American again for the same issue. While the functional quality of GM is much better than the functional quality of the Japanese auto because most of the time it does more. Have you seen a Toyota or Honda full of people and how the wheels bow out and looks like it's about to drag? American cars don't do that. Or just for arguments sake say Japanese cars break down some number insgnificantly less than GM cars do. Why does anyone care if it runs forever if forever it has less horse power and is ugly or the styling is a cheap knockoff of a GM, Mercedes or BMW or worse is a cheap knockoff of another ugly Japanese car? Why don't you try to support your country and businesses, if it is still your country, and support infrastructural change that will benefit American companies even if it does upset your Japanese friends.