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Originally posted by john70t
US companies should each produce an econobox and keep production of the same car year after year, such as the escort/beetle/rabbit/civic for parts interchangability, and not change the thing!
A complete redesign costs too much money and consumers have gotten wise to the unique/throwaway confusion they've been offering for the last three decades.
I personally don't care if the new Volvo/Ford has blind-spot radar, tailgaiting radar, or a freaking heartbeat sensor inside , I want economy, price and reliability.
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Reducing the long term cost of automobile purchasing is not their agenda. This is capitalism, remember?
The CEO will be lauded as a hero. Because he screwed up so badly that thousands of workers need to be layed off. Our economy is interesting like that. The interests of workers and consumers are amusing, but the interests of investors is what's important.