Sometimes a one time upfront cost is optimal than a high overhead for all your operations. Its like sorting an array of integers (O(nlogn) so you can rapidly se

Sometimes a one time upfront cost is optimal than a high overhead for all your operations. Its like sorting an array of integers (O(nlogn) so you can rapidly search it with Binary Search (O(logn) rather than having to do a linear O(n) every time. It sucks for the people in Detroit and Michigan as a whole. Their education system has not yet caught up to the fact that the name of the game is "value added". Also, now that "peak credit" has hit (shortly after peak oil last december) I do not see the trend of American families buying a brand new car every 1 to 2 years continuing. Much more effort is going to have to be spent making your manufacturing base as efficient as possible -- simply because the car buying cycle will likely be an "every five-six years" trend from now on.