Posted by JDEM on January 15, 2017 at 07:37:27 from (70.194.12.103):
In Reply to: On Made in America posted by Texasmark1 on January 15, 2017 at 06:10:40:
My father-in-law was an automotive engineer at Ford back when Datsuns and Toyotas were making fools out of US designs and levels of "poor quality controls." He says Ford was buying foreign cars, taking them apart, and trying to figure out how the Japanese could make such reliable cars and trucks and yet - not in a typical American "heavy duty" way. He was involved in many in-house Ford programs that attempted to copy the Japanese. In a nutshell - we won the war. The Japanese then copied proven existing designs from all over the world, improved them, and built great cars and trucks. They did not try to "reinvent the wheel." Years later - US auto makers started copying the Japanese.
On a side-note - my father-in-law also told me he was involved in taking apart a Ferrari that Ford bought. He says it was very crude and he was amazed at the poor quality and awful welds.
After World War II, the USA also seized the assets of Stihl chainsaws in Germany since Andreas Stihl was a Hitler supporter. Stihl chainsaw designs were given to USA saw makers and look what happened? Stihl of West Germany still prevailed in the end. Same with Bosch - another Hitler supporter. We seized the assets and created Bosch in the USA (AMBAC). Look now who is still in business?
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