Excepting that Mercedes-Benz is German and you'll be competing with people that can build a car that can turn a corner and be reliable too. America makes some great products: Gibson and Fender spring to mind. But man your cars are as bad as, if not worse than, ours.
This is not a failure brought about by subsidies. The US car problem is down to a captive market, crappy design, poor quality control, & failure to keep up with technological innovation. I mean where are your export markets? Mexico? Canada? Mercedes sell the same models worldwide. US manufacturers can't compete in the world market, mainly because the internal market is so skewed, so captive, and so conservative (with, in this case, the emphasis on blinkers).
Despite US auto manufacturers having a head start on almost all other car makers they fell behind in the 60's & 70's, and have never really caught up.
And if you think I'm exaggerating, I would ask what your automobile export figures are? Especially when you remove foreign companies like Honda, Nissan, and Mercedes, which manufacture on US soil, from the equation.
The subsidy and innovations like the Volt may be the best thing to happen to the US auto industry in a long while. It has given it space to rethink and retrench.
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Date: 20/1/12 07:44 (UTC)America makes some great products: Gibson and Fender spring to mind. But man your cars are as bad as, if not worse than, ours.
This is not a failure brought about by subsidies. The US car problem is down to a captive market, crappy design, poor quality control, & failure to keep up with technological innovation. I mean where are your export markets? Mexico? Canada? Mercedes sell the same models worldwide. US manufacturers can't compete in the world market, mainly because the internal market is so skewed, so captive, and so conservative (with, in this case, the emphasis on blinkers).
Despite US auto manufacturers having a head start on almost all other car makers they fell behind in the 60's & 70's, and have never really caught up.
And if you think I'm exaggerating, I would ask what your automobile export figures are? Especially when you remove foreign companies like Honda, Nissan, and Mercedes, which manufacture on US soil, from the equation.
The subsidy and innovations like the Volt may be the best thing to happen to the US auto industry in a long while. It has given it space to rethink and retrench.