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> and resulted in decades of poor build quality that American cars are still disparaged for to this day. Wrong. The American carmakers failed to adapt to this
by mtgx 8y ago
> and resulted in decades of poor build quality that American cars are still disparaged for to this day.
Wrong. The American carmakers failed to adapt to this new rule properly, while the Japanese carmakers fully embraced it and ended-up benefiting from it.
It's not so different from what's happening today with EVs. Some are pushing full-steam ahead for EVs, gaining all that know-how and expertise to build high-efficiency and high-reliability EVs with long ranges, while others drag their feet because they don't like change and they would rather keep milking their current ICE technology for decades more to come.
Guess which type of company is going to do very well in the future, and which will do poorly.
- Aloha 8y agoThis fails to account for the fact that in the Japanese home market fuel efficiency was already a key requirement