08-11-2008, 10:53 AM
Howie Feltersnatch Wrote:airhornahole Wrote:Howie, you have to remember that there are hundreds of others (besides the fat cats) in Detroit who are making monry from that truck. There's Engineering, Purchasing, Marketing, Quality, not to mention the American based suppliers. I do agree, it would be nice if all "American" cars and trucks were built in the States. However, to be honest, coming from someone with many years of experience in automotive, the Mexican workers do a much better job of Quality control. OK go ahead let me have it.
ok, of the marketers, purchasers ect...which jobs that are here in the US for domestic cars are not here for the big imports like Toyota?
The "transplants" have assembly plants all around the U.S. Also, they have North American headquarters which, for the most part, cotrol those plants and all support work for the assembly. Similar to the Detroit offices of the Detroit three but on a much smaller scale. They fo receive driving orders from their "mother country" but employ many American's at the same time. My feeling is that the Detroit three have been running fat and happy for so long that they don't know how to respond to the changing markets as quickly as the others.