what went wrong with american automakers

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inflation, UAW strikes, constant rising costs of materials, labor and operations for 100yrs.
cars and the automotive industry is now way over engineered, way to complicated nightmares on wheels.
here is an article i found on the web when i was searching for 'why automakers keep pushing failed inovation us'
watch this video at YT....it's a prime example why cars are way over engineered and a
complete nightmare.
the owner went to 3 three different mechanics and nobody could find it.
turns out the high pressure direct injection fuel pump has failed....omg, gimme a break
watch the video....it will explain what has failed
the video is a prime example why cars are way over engineered.
mechanics are quiting because of the over engineering, low pay and high pressure.
mechanics need to keep going to school at their own cost out of pocket to keep up with the automakers
and their wonderful ideas..
search....why do automakers keep pushing failed inovation on us
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here is another nightmare.
customer refused to fix it.
at 110,000 miles both twin turbos on a V6 need to be replaced.
the job is 10-12 hours at @$5000 maybe more to tear it down to do the job.
the mechanics will probably find more things wrong when they tear it down....
the car value is only maybe $6k...
the mechanics won't do it unless you do both turbos because the other is probably not too far behind for failure.
automakers are using V6 with turbos because they can put out a lot of power with the turbos and cheaper to produce than the V8.
 
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ohh, easy
America makes shit cars
 
well, yeah, for the reasons i said in the first line of my post.
america can't compete anymore because of the insane cost of inflation.
What I said is nothing new, American cars have always been shit
 
Sure, but nothing is consistently shit like American car makers
 
Sure, but nothing is consistently shit like American car makers
are you saying australian cars are better then american cars because a lot of cars in australia are american based like GM and Ford.
same shit just a different smell....
 
Australian cars are much better now we got rid of that taxpayer supported industry. We don't have any car manufacturers anymore they are a waste of money and resources.

 
so then, with no automakers in aussi land, you are flooded with all the crappy cars from America??
the cost of buying and owning a car in america is a complete ripoff......
 
Components... American components, Russian components... all made in Taiwan!
 
so then, with no automakers in aussi land, you are flooded with all the crappy cars from America??
the cost of buying and owning a car in america is a complete ripoff......
Do some research
General Motors does not make any cars for righthand drive markets.
Yes, we can buy a Ford, and a handful of Mustangs are on the roads, the biggest selling Fords are made in Asia
 
Xeno #10...that is no surprise...almost everything left the states a long time ago.
big business started leaving in the late 70s, early 80s and more followed for decades taking jobs with them.
American business got tired of the constant rising cost of business in the US so they went overseas
where there are little or no laws, rules, regulations and lower wages.

PB Pete #11
i did some google searches.
in a way you are correct.
oth, in the link GM does make some RHDrive vehicles in the truck division.
GM is doing a study to bring RHDrive cars back.
i have heard of cars that have a sliding LHD/RHD conversion kit but that is not really relevant to this.
i could not find any links for the sliding conversions

 
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