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To: steve harris who wrote (490256)	6/23/2009 5:07:34 PM
From: HPilot	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578023

Unions are why the cars cost so much and why there is no profit selling them. American cars are of high quality in my opinion. No it doesn't show up in Consumer Reports, but that is swayed by a bunch of people sending in lies about their vehicles. IMO it is only accurate to a point, the ones with the red dots and half red dots are much closer in quality than it would appear. Heck on my Ford Taurus my problems were the items it was rated good to fair on. No problems with items rated poorly.

To: steve harris who wrote (490256)	6/23/2009 6:12:26 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578023

Come on now, everybody knows it was all managements fault! g

To: steve harris who wrote (490256)	6/23/2009 11:22:13 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1578023

"So now you're agreeing with me that unions are the reason American car quality sucks?" Quality is a systemic issue. You cannot limit to one aspect of the process. Refer back to Deming. Although, if you do, you'd understand that quality starts at the top.

To: steve harris who wrote (490256)	6/24/2009 5:59:19 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578023

I think GM and Chrysler each had one car in the top ten. Think about it.......here are two American companies with only ONE car each in the top ten of their primary market, the US of A, their home country. Think about it, Hugh, because it speaks volumes! So now you're agreeing with me that unions are the reason American car quality sucks? No, I am still sticking to my position that mgmt was the primary culprit as evidenced in articles and books written by former auto mgmt types.