US Yaris to be imported from France ?

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Originally Posted by Billiam

That's what the average person can't understand because they aren't directly involved in the auto manufacturing business. All most people see is that those "darned American workers" can't do it right. What they can't understand is just how rampant the mismanagement was in the Big 3 during the 70's and '80's....particularly GM. There were layers and layers of redundant management who were completely disconnected from both the product they were producing and the people who built them.

I wholly agree, Billiam...
I can easily believe that it is just as much the fault of crappy managers as it is crappy workers. Each deserves the other because their crappy values match.

All the customer sees is the end result... a crappy car.

Screw over a customer really good like that just once... and they never come back.

There's hardly anything I have more contempt for than an inept unethical shoddy company that can only continue to exist because it's being propped up by undeserved liberal government bailouts and subsidies.