http://www.nothirdsolution.com/2009/06/18/why-will-the-american-auto-industry-fail/ Blogging about liberty, anarchy, economics and politics Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.nothirdsolution.com/2009/06/18/why-will-the-american-auto-industry-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-8351 Zach S. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:11:07 +0000 http://www.nothirdsolution.com/?p=2403#comment-8351 It's because we aren't paying for the technology. We are paying for the inflated costs of employees thruogh the whole supply chain (aka the UAW) and we are also paying for the laziness of auto executives who still believe in push production, not pull production. It's because we aren't paying for the technology. We are paying for the inflated costs of employees thruogh the whole supply chain (aka the UAW) and we are also paying for the laziness of auto executives who still believe in push production, not pull production.

]]> http://www.nothirdsolution.com/2009/06/18/why-will-the-american-auto-industry-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-8293 Reverend Draco Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:44:01 +0000 http://www.nothirdsolution.com/?p=2403#comment-8293 Automobiles are pretty much the only product you never see at a real discount. . . I mean, look in your local newspaper, and you'll see ads for home furnishing, 50-70% off. . . or big discount sales of items that have been sitting on the shelves for 6 months. . . but autos? You're lucky if all the "rebates" and "dealer incentives" amount to 10%. And why, O why, do we let them get away with selling 100+/- year old technology at State-of-the-Art prices? If pocket calculators were cars, they'd cost $20k, instead of having dropped from an initial cost of approx. $300 down to (in some cases) 1% (or less) of that amount. Of course, there is no United Pocket Calculator Workers union to drive production costs through the roof. If cell phones were cars, an iPhone would run about $80k, as the original 'brick' cellphone ran about $2k (figuring from a Model T at about $395 to a comparable car at $20k today - an increase of more than 4,000%). But then, who ever heard of the United Cell Phone Workers union demanding obscene wages and perks? Cars should never cost more than a few grand, as the technology (not talking about bells & whistles) is so old as to be obsolete. Automobiles are pretty much the only product you never see at a real discount. . .
I mean, look in your local newspaper, and you'll see ads for home furnishing, 50-70% off. . . or big discount sales of items that have been sitting on the shelves for 6 months. . . but autos? You're lucky if all the "rebates" and "dealer incentives" amount to 10%.
And why, O why, do we let them get away with selling 100+/- year old technology at State-of-the-Art prices? If pocket calculators were cars, they'd cost $20k, instead of having dropped from an initial cost of approx. $300 down to (in some cases) 1% (or less) of that amount. Of course, there is no United Pocket Calculator Workers union to drive production costs through the roof. If cell phones were cars, an iPhone would run about $80k, as the original 'brick' cellphone ran about $2k (figuring from a Model T at about $395 to a comparable car at $20k today – an increase of more than 4,000%). But then, who ever heard of the United Cell Phone Workers union demanding obscene wages and perks?
Cars should never cost more than a few grand, as the technology (not talking about bells & whistles) is so old as to be obsolete.

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