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To: Alighieri who wrote (437350)	12/1/2008 10:49:03 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574043

Bingo...marketing at its best. The big three exploiting a tactical market, japan trying to take their share while making big investments in smaller economical cars, a segment in which they are kicking detroit's ass. I don't disagree here, but you do understand these are transitory processes? Japan tries to take some away from Detroit, Detroit tries to take some away from Japan. The reality is there has been a steady drip, drip, drip of transition away from the Big Three to Toyota & others, and it is largely because you get "better value" by buying foreign cars. That's a fact. You get better quality from the ground up with Hyundai and Toyota and Nissan. This is attributable largely to the unions. When American manufacturers can't replace a human with a robot which can do a better job due to the unions, that's a problem. When they can't position an antenna where the engineering people say it needs to be because a union employee would have to reach more than 18", that's a problem. And when they have to pay employees to NOT work, that negatively impacts the ENTIRE company by driving up costs making them less competitive.