Posted on 04/04/2022 9:54:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Mustang and Camaro are the two of the biggest names in the muscle car world, and production of both vehicles is now temporarily suspended due to parts supply issues.
Ford and General Motors both announced that they would be idling the factories that make the Mustang and the Camaro for one week, following issues with the parts supply chain.
GM will be idling its Lansing Grand River Assembly facility which currently builds both the Camaro, Cadillac CT4, and CT5, which are all based on the same platform. GM did not specify what parts it was missing in order to complete Camaros, but spokesman Dan Flores told Autonews that it was not related to microchips.
As for Ford, as reported by Fox Business, it cited semiconductor supplies as the main issue for the shutdown of its Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Michigan, which only builds the Mustang. Ford’s other North American plants will continue to operate normally for now. …
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JIT.
MBA’s should all be shot.
Quit teaching them Calculus and teach them self sufficiency.
Had to look that up. Apparently, calculus is required for MBA students to figure out derivatives, rather that stuff like integrals, vector math, partial derivatives or suchlike. Not to mention a lot of MBA programs don’t require an undergraduate degree in business these days.
If a true/blue Republican were Pres they would propose huge tax incentives to any corp/business opened to make chips...
...DONE!
There are advantages to having an MBA program fed by people who have degrees in their fields such as engineering, medicine, law, etc. The entrants know the technical side of their profession and can add the finance side instead of having MBAs who know finance but know nothing about the industries they work in.
Just but an electric Mustang.
Problem solved.
I call BS! All auto makers are making cash hand over fist way over pricing their POS!
An undergrad degree in biz is the last thing good business schools want. (Such students tend to be weaker than average.)
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