Works for me.
“Works for me. “
Well, yes and no. Several thousand dealers getting mandatory deliveries allow the plants to keep running at capacity. Because of labor contracts the company pays the labor whether it’s working or not. So if they went to a demand model, say the one Wal-Mart uses on its products, the plants would, for example, never build another Volt. Yes, that would be good. But the number of things that would need to change would cause a total collapse of the industry. The tax incentives would need to go away. The labor contracts would need to be changed or done away with. The way the plants are laid out and run simply won’t work on a demand model. (Japanese plants, however already work on a demand model. They can build any vehicle on any line and only in the quantities needed.)