If the American people are so lazy why can the Japanese build high quality cars here?
The problems at Chrysler aren’t from America loosing any edge, they’re from Chrysler willingly designing and shipping crap. They’re too addicted as a company to the words “good enough”, you can have the best minds in the world at a company but if the culture accepts crap outputs they’re going to output crap.
Chrysler got shafted when Mercedes bought them, then refused to share parts and technology with Chrysler, for fear of cheapening the Mercedes brand.