" From: Don Johnson <donjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> " " I don't know why the big 3 can't seem to make a car as well as the asians. They've been at it longer and should be the leaders but somehow they're not. When you have to rely on patriotism to sell your cars, you've already lost the war. and it's also a great irony that the fellow who taught them about total quality control was an american who learned his lesson while working for at&t. he couldn't get detroit interested. " In my mind, we have the engineers and the technology to do the job, but somewhere the new thinking either isn't being encouraged by management or its there and isn't being executed on the plant floor. Either way, something needs to be done soon or we won't be seeing some very big players around much longer. marketeers and widget managers, and top-down authority. widget managers know business but not necessarily the car business, and worse, believe they don't need to know the car business. to them the company's real product is dividends [and their bonuses] and however dividends are produced is incidental. eg. manage the money and the rest will follow... ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list