Re: [Amc-list] Auto industry meltdown

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Doug Dornbos wrote:

> We'll get down to the worldwide Big Three in the mainstream auto business.

Pretty interesting, and anecdotally, you can see that sort of thing in 
other areas where manufacturing scale matters. It's the "80 20 rule" at 
work (80% of the stuff is made by 20% of the suppliers).

On the other extreme of scale -- which we as 2008 AMC owners take 
advantage of all the time -- is "The Long Tail" 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail or something like it. For 
niche stuff -- that doesn't require the kind of scale that mass 
manufacturing does -- the internet and other comm. tech. lets us have 
tiny AMC parts suppliers, and for those like Peter Stathes -- small 
scale specialists -- it can only help.
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