The Dodge is a better looking truck though.
Posted on 03/08/2013 8:00:48 AM PST by tje
Chrysler is reportedly having a hard time ramping up production of its 2013 Ram 1500. According to The Detroit News, only 16 of the 58 trucks built at the Warren Truck Assembly Plant during the model's first hour passed final inspection. While quality eventually improved over the course of the day, just over half of the units built on Thursday were approved for shipment. Even with workers ordered to stay late to fix their mistakes, some 1,078 units remained outside the facility with defects. The problem, according to workers at the plant, is morale.
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The daily floggings will continue until morale improves.......
New Dodge pickups should be delivered with a spare automatic transmission tucked in the bed.
The Dodge is a better looking truck though.
So long as Ford builds the spares that ought to work
I can’t forsee myself ever buying a Chrysler(Fiat) product.
More likely the problem is UNION.
Star firing a few and the rest would come around fast enough, but of course Union doesn’t allow that.
I think Ford is the best looking on the road - GMAC or Chevy is the worst.
I don’t know. Automotive experts are praising that new 8 speed automatic.
Nut then... It’s totally new and has had no time to reveal any flaws.
But more than antything... This is a Dodge. That and the fact that Motor Trend named the 2013 Ram as Truck of the Year is enough for me to stay far, far away from this truck.
Just love my 2012 Ford xtr f150
It’s a shame. They are one of the better looking pickups out there now.
Exactly. They're getting $100,000 a year when you add in the fringe benefits. But that's "not enough." Unions are the perfect textbook example of two old proverbs in action: "You can have too much of a good thing," and "They've outlived their usefulness."
So the problem is "morale."
Just love my 2003 Ram 2500 Cummings Diesel, only 156,000 miles on it... I expect it to be my last vehicle.
TT
I bought a new Toyota Tacoma in December.
Translation: the workers either don't give a damn, or are actively sabotaging production.
In my not so humble opinion, the Nissan Titan must be the toughest truck on the road. They, like the Dodge truck of the 60s have to be tough because they are so damn ugly.
It is pretty bad when half the trucks they build don’t pass their own standards, especially when you consider the half that did pass are (in my experience) crap. Look at the garbage they’ve been putting out for years. It’s not like the standards are high in the first place.
No, the PROBLEM there, as in all Unionized workforces, is that Union Work Rules allow un-qualified to put in their time, sit on their asses, and screw up production. (This happens in the Government Union ranks every day, too).
Unions are money-laundering, inefficient, over-priced/over-benefits slugs who can't stand on their own Merit)
Henry Ford
Someday, assuming the world survives through to the other side of what has us now, they'll write a required text book that will highlight how to drive away loyal customers and lose them for life.
It will be about the The Big Three and the unions that took them over, with a few chapters about Michigan politics and lots of before and after pictures of Detroit and other cities.
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