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>"GM and the rest of Detroit got their rear ends handed to them because they'd underinvested in fuel-efficient engine designs (the lost 70s) and grown lazy in r
by nickff 5y ago
>"GM and the rest of Detroit got their rear ends handed to them because they'd underinvested in fuel-efficient engine designs (the lost 70s) and grown lazy in reliability."
You're leaving out some pressures which caused Detroit to be un-competitive in the small car space, including high labor costs.
- wombatpm 5y agoI owned a 79 Ford Mustang in 1986. By 1988 and 88k miles the engine was shot because it was an underpowered 2liter 4 cylinder with a turbo. Detroit was uncompetitive because they made sucky cars. To this day I haven’t owned another Ford and never will.