You're not getting the point I'm trying to make.
An Italian's idea of a dream car: Ferrari
A German's idea of a dream car: R8
A Japanese' idea of a dream car: Honda NSX (new gen)
An American's idea: Corvette, Viper etc...
While other countries' cars ooze luxury, technology and design, American cars ooze horse power and noise. This sort of thinking is present in every American car and that's why they can never compete with EU and EA cars. All three have a bit of their dream cars in their mass consumer models, but while the Japanese add technology and Europeans design and luxury, the Americans add HP and noise.
That's my arguement.
And you want a similar price point? Compare the corvette to the Nissan GTR. One oozes technology and can go faster than cars 3 times its price while the Corvette is CHEAP, literally (made from plastic to lower weight), ugly, uncivilized, has bad interior, has bad cornering etc...
My dear dear dear poster,
There is no doubt that GM and Chrysler to a large degree, and Ford to a lesser degree have put profits and markups well above things that are important to a customer. That means, reliability, dependability, and bang for the buck.
The head honchos of GM sit in their cushy board rooms and conspire to loot American consumer in one way or the other. Which by any means is pathetic. really pathetic. And no mortal can ever defend this callous behavior.
However GM and other American manufacturers are also suffering from bloated bureaucracies both in corporate section as well as unions.
Case in point. Employee insurance programs run by the America Big three.
This is one program that many other countries and corporations in EU or China don't have to worry about. Why because retiree insurance and healthcare in every other country is borne by the taxpayers and not individual companies to a large degree.
In other words when it comes to final final accounting books, American Big Three have to account for a large percentage towards retiree benefits. While their competitors may have some of those benefits on their books but a very small percentage.
Mix this with burden with short term decision making due to Wall Street perssure means that GM has not invested in long term programs.
And now all this is coming back to bite them. And that's a terrible news about American auto and perhaps 1000s of other industries.
Good news is that many American states in the south are deciding to rid their programs run by bloated unions. And many American manufactures are relocating to these states.
While GM may die out when American taxpayers refuse to save these inefficient companies like GM, new companies take over and continue making America a great place for innovation, prosperity, and efficiency.
This is all the while our countries like Pakistan, iran, etc. will continue to be riddled with huge state monopolies and thus remain stuck in the past.
peace
