donttread (06-03-2023)
Quality control is a management decision.
The cause of our auto industry’s demise is gubmint intervention by legislating technology into existence that did not exist and demanding that it be implemented far faster than it could be developed.
Most people don’t realize that the vintage family station wagon was de facto taxed out of existence, and the SUV legislated into dominance … all for the supposed greater good.
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Union membership continues to decline
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...us-since-2000/
37% of those union workers are government workers. How frickin ridiculous is that.
A union to represent a government worker. That's just government paying off unions that then give part of it back directly to Democrat candidates. It is corruption.
Let's go Brandon !!!
NoisyBoy (06-03-2023)
That is a distortion of what happened. The reality is that the emissions standards are more strict for cars than for trucks, so to continue to keep the fleet emissions for each company lower, they built SUVs and christened them to be light trucks. The government did no deliberately tax station wagons, they simply stopped building them, The manufacturers are simply furgling with the emissions laws.
It is NOT a case of the evil government punishing station wagons; it is a case of the manufacturers fiddling with the regulations. Th manufacturers often participate in writing the regulations.
My Outback averages about 21 mph around town. However, when I get it on an uncluttered highway and set the cruise control at 60 mph, the mpg indicator can climb up to 36 mpg. Unfortunately, the highways around Miami are cluttered every day but Sundays and some holidays.
The Outback has LOTS more usable space inside than a standard station wagon, because it has more vertical space.
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GM made awful cars from the 1970's through the 1980's by poor design. The Vega COULD have been a decent car, but rather that put the Cosford engine in it, they used an aluminum engine without steel piston inserts, and a body without adequate rustproofing that combined with the atmosphere at an alarming rate. The goal was to outsell the also awful Ford Pinto.
They used the same body for Cadillac, Olds, Buick, Pontiac and Chevrolet using the formula Cheap, cheaper, and three degrees of cheapest. Under Roger Smith, GM lost market share every year, and Roger Smith got a bonus despite that. GM lost sales because of guys like Smith far more than because of allegedly lazy UAW workers.