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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (288426)5/21/2006 2:59:42 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1572084
 
I don't really blame the car mfg's. It's really OUR fault - they just build what we want. Ford built the Explorer because Nissan's Pathfinder and Toyota's Forerunner were selling pretty well. Americans bought them like there was no tommorrow, and demanded bigger ones. All mfg's joined in, to where now even Porsche builds one. The fact that these made even LESS sense than the gas guzzling boats of the 60's and 70's was forgotten, by us, the mfg's and the government.

I think you are being way to easy on them. Toyota didn't get left out in the cold without high gas mileage vehicles to sell. Honda and Toyota were the first to come out with hybrid cars........now Ford has to buy motors from T. so it have its own hybrids. And have you ever seen the difference between a high mileage T. and a Ford or GM comparable. The American ones are so tinny, they feel like they will fall apart within minutes.

GM and F do everything they can to discourage American interest in high mileage cars because they think that larger, low mileage cars make more money. But if that 20 year thesis is correct, why has Toyota usually outdone the American companies economically? In fact, its stock has consistently outperformed GM's and has mostly outperformed Ford's over the past ten years.

IMO GM is a national resource that's being pissed away by poor mgmt.
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