Detroit Sucks Its Own Dick!!! Japs and Kruts can only shake their heads...

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Ford Motor Company (followed by Chrysler) has just shit on itself once again, by admiting that Toyota is going to surpass it as the No. 2 automaker in the US market -- a position Ford held for over 70 years. Oh, in case you haven't been keeping up Ford shat on itself the first time THIS MONTH by stating that it's flushed away close to $9billion dollars and doesn't expect profitability until 2009

The people at DaimlerChrysler effectively admitted that its nearly impossible to make a profitable subcompact in the United States, and that China or another Asian country is where they'll have to outsource operations.

The big issue is that about a decade ago Detroit's Big failed to make teh major structural shift in its business operations -- mainly make cars that consumer actually want to buy -- and instead focused on making SUVs and light trucks, which made more money per unit.

I'll NEVER buy an American car -- for these reasons, they are designed inside and out, top to bottom like the worst pieces of horse shit imaginable; the companies ran that planned obsolence agenda for decades before the Japanese started whuppin' that ass in the late 70s, and because when I was learning how to drive, Ford had just introduced the Taurus, and we owned one, and was constantly fucking up, looked chump and was a bitch just to sit in -- let alone handle. We had a 1980 Honda Accord, and then moved the Taurus station wagon, so I was used to being driven in a svlet car with nice creature comforts -- even for an inexpensive car, which the Accord was in those days.

The Big Three can suck shit out of a straw, because they have YET to learn how to design cars that are appealing. I wouldn't pay more than $8000 for ANY American made car. The manufacturing quality is suspect, so it might be up (per Ford's "quality is Job 1" campaign) or fucked like GM's entire line... yet by far the biggest problem is aesthetics. You can't name me 5 American cars over the past 20 years that can compete with even the basest of European or Japanese visual design. For whatever reason, Detroit focused on selling cars to the people in the focus groups who weren't looking for anything "fancy" -- fuck, get me some fancy ass car that looks like a Benz or a Ferrari or a Porsche!

The interiors are worse -- particularly the stock radio (anything made by AC Delco when it still had dominance was fuckshit, and you can quote me on that) -- even those secondary parts manufacturers weren't worth a fuck. I remember when I was a kid everyone wanted an Alpine indash stereo -- tell me, hard is it to swipe the basic design and change a few minor things, then sell it as as Delco? I mean the Japanese basically stole the Benz and BMW body designs when they hit the luxury car market, and yeah some people cried foul -- but the Japs made strides in that market segment and now practically own it!

You know what's going to happen? Nissan is going to team-up with GM or Ford, then raid the design vaults and reintroduce a bunch of cars that were hits, but with nouveau-retro designs and MAKE A KILLING! Imagine if yøu could have a 64 Impala that actually ran as good as a Toyota, had no engine trouble like a Honda

What kills me is why the American engineers HAVE NEVER been able to make quality engines the way Honda does? Especially when the Japanese effectively adopted the ideas of an American Automotive expert when determine how they'd reinvent their auto industry post WW2.

There's no excuse for the poor American mismanagement of its manufacturing base over the past few decades, and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that industry is a slave to Wall Street's quarterly reporting requirements/demands. Sure, you need that check-n-balance, but the need to make corporate profits WITHOUT having a bad quarter, let alone a bad year, has become increasingly detrimental to all things American since the 1987 Stock Market Crash, which ushered in an unprecedented way and means to make outrageous sums of money via the stock market.

Also, we have to recall that the true spirit of American Industry was enabled by guess who? THE ROBBER BARONS -- the ruthless white men who raped and pillaged whenever they could to amass great fortunes that still hold sway over the American way of life over a 100 years later! God fucking damn!

Well, I'm working to set up shop in another country, as I can be around when America slips into the cesspool that it's been hiding for a couple decades now. And I WILL NOT raise children in this influx environment...