US Yaris to be imported from France ?

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Originally Posted by Billiam

Unions get the blame for a lot of bad things...some deserved...some not. The downfall of the Big 3 had much more to do with poor planning, poor designs, poor engineering and poor management in general than it did with the assembly line worker.

As for your assertion that the "American" worker doesn't care as much for what they do as their Germans and Japanese counterparts is both incorrect and, quite frankly, offensive...and clearly based on some sort of predisposed idea.

yawn. Let's revisit history. BMW opened a brand new plant in South Carolina. All of a sudden BMW's had quality issues. People looking for BWM's made sure they only bought cars that were straight from germany. The sources of the quality issues lead directly to the SC plant.

VW has several plants in the US. They also have make some vehicles for the US in Germany. People search out cars made from Germany and avoid the ones from the US. Just go check out any vw forums and you will see people recommending this.

Most Japanese and Korean car makers now have plants in the USA and their home countries. In every single case people seek out vehicles made in the foreign countries and avoid ones made in the US.

I could go on, but I don't see the point. People aren't dumb, they are going to make decisions that make the best sense for themselves. In the case of automobiles avoiding american made ones is just better sense.

Let's not talk about the big 3. The only one that should still even exist is Ford. Both GM and Chrysler should have died a long time ago. The country would be much better off with whatever is going to take their place when both companies do officially die. To string it out hurts everyone, especially Americans who truly have good ideas and the ability to make great things happen.

Pretend to be offended all you want. I really couldn't care less. If Americans actually gave a damn about anything any more they would have the decency to all pay attention and educate themselves on the one thing that we can all do, vote. Yet at most 1/3 of the country votes. And judging from our last presidential election even those that voted didn't pay too much attention. That says everything.

If you let it the truth will set you free.