Don't knock the mentality. It's called "Design to Cost". You get a spec for a piece of equipment. The spec exists for a certain reason be it longevity, safety, cost, performance, environment or what have you. You design and build it to that spec. If it passes inspections and testing, and is designed to the spec, it's a quality product.
Obviously a Ford Falcon had one and a Cadillac Coupe DeVille had another. One cost what it did and so did the other. Just because it was a Falcon did not mean it wasn't a quality product. The designer that thought "gee wouldn't this be neat" went over to the Caddy design team.
As a matter of fact, one of my buddies bought a 1960 2 door coupe, when the Falcon first came out. Stick shift no nothing. Tight as a drum, handled like a dream, got 30 mpg without trying but he had to mechanically raise and lower the windows, manual wipers, manual door locks, adjust the brakes himself and no PS, PB, AC, tilt wheel, power locks, CD radio and on and on that are standard in the specs of today. The Caddy came with that as standard equipment.
Your buddy's dad was facing just that. However, I agree that coming from the machine shop was a funny source. Usually it's from management when they do the final design review before it is released for developmental model production, and later the final product inspection.
I was there but it wasn't cars or washing machines.
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