Auto Design

Folks,

USA economic policy was supposed to make us great, but it is not working as Ford
Motor
company shows.

http://tinyurl.com/gfn89

One response is to blame the Chinese (wait, weren't the Mexican immigrants the
source of all
of our problems just 2 months ago?):

http://tinyurl.com/jhccb

I think a better way would be through design. Y'all know that the Lincoln LS,
the Jaguar
Sedan and the recent Ford Thunderbird were all the same car as far as engine,
transmission,
etc, just different shells... and so it is with the Saturn Ion and the Pontiac
Solstice. Now given
the expensive part, the machinery of the car is the same, then it is the shape
of the metal
covering that makes the difference, and that too costs the same.

But compare what you get from GM for $16,000 in a Saturn Ion

http://tinyurl.com/fafbk

Doesn't that just set your heart aflutter?

Versus what you get from Pontiac (a GM company) for $21,000 in a Pontiac
Solstice

http://tinyurl.com/bw8kf

Now, they are powering up the engine in a Solstice as an alternative, at a
higher price, but if
you compare the two cars with the same engine, GM get $5000 more on the list
price on the
Solstice, and, just try to buy one. Each dealer is charging a higher than list
price for the
Solstice because there are not enough being made.

Americans are being laid off from high paying auto jobs, and there are not
enough of these
Solstices cars being made.

If the government had not bailed out Chrysler back in 1979, 100,000 people would
have been
put out of work. 1000 of them would have started automobile companies (One
did,
Delorean, and he was destroyed for his efforts). 200 of them would have been
operating by
1990, with half of them profitably, and today we'd have the top 50 automobile
companies in
the world based in usa, instead of the three largest and sickest companies in
the world.

I am a big believer in making U S A # 1 in all of the positive categories.
There is a way, and
alternative to what we are doing now, being #1 in so many negative categories.
In the
meantime, I'll just work on being #1 in my categories.

John

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