This is the best that American auto engineering can come up with? When was good old-fashioned USA manufacturing grit replaced with European Metrosexual nonsense?
We’re so screwed.
When grit stopped being enough and actual design for function and quality manufacturing became important. GM, etc. stuck to grit, but the market for grit kept shrinking and now they are bankrupt all but for the $20B plus hand out that tided them over for six months.
American manufacturers screwed themselves. We make the world's best fighter aircraft, and the 787, if it ever flies, will be great (mostly built on improvements and techniuqes developed on the defense side). Other folks need to take inspiration.