” Detroit was extremely short sided. “
I see the quality issue as a choice. Ford could make cars every bit as good as the Japanese brands, but they choose not to. It probably costs a incremental amount more to do it, but in this era, quality should just be a given.
It makes me mad because these are American owned companies. Our country can do better. We have the best engineers and other talents to do it right.
It just galls me that we let other countries use our intellectually capital to beat us at a core industry.
We make the best aircraft in the world because we choose to do so, why not cars?
Excellent points. I guess it comes down to profit margins. With those expensive UAW contracts cuts must be made somewhere. But to what end? GM and Ford may both go bankrupt anyway. But you’re quite right; it’s certainly not beyond us to make the very best.