Posted on 08/18/2006 6:32:28 AM PDT by dubie
DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. will cut North American production by 21 percent in the fourth quarter, requiring partial shutdowns at several plants in the U.S. and Canada.
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Probably high pay for good workers, cool deisel affordable/ecological vehicles, minimize 'financing', keep production American, and not fund perversion groups.
Yea and that Toyota Tundra will soon be built in a new factory in the Republic of Texas. San Antonio to be exact.
Heaven forbid some of our fellow Freepers open up there computers that have American brand names on them and find alot of the chips were made in Japan.
Hmmmmmm....Honda and Toyota BOTH are putting their cars together in the USA, does that count as "foreign garbage"?
Unions priced the American union-built cars out of the market, and since more and more COMPONENTS of "American Cars" are imported (check the labels on GM's electronics, seats, tires, etc.) and you'll see a lot of "made in Mexico" and "made in China" and "made in Taiwan" stickers all over them. Additionally, the MODEL of the GM car may put you in a FOREIGN car, wearing the GM logo.
Among Detroit automakers, values for U.S. or Canadian content by model ranges widely, from more than 90% to less than 30%.
GM's new Chevrolet Tahoe has 62% U.S. content, 25% from Mexico, 9% from Canada and 3% from China. The Chrysler 300C has 72% U.S. or Canadian parts value, with an engine made in Mexico. Ford has a number of models at 90%, including the F-Series pickup, but the hybrid Escape comes in at 55% thanks to Japanese-sourced components.
The Chevy HHR, made in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, is sold with a window sticker mandated by U.S. law saying the vehicle has 85% "domestic" content, meaning parts from the United States or Canada.
But Bo Andersson, GM's vice president of global purchasing, said in a recent speech that 64% of the parts value in the HHR originates in Mexico, while 30% comes from the United States.
GM said the HHR's label reflects an average of its parts value with larger U.S.-made SUVs, such as the Chevrolet Trailblazer.
Andersson said GM now buys $9.3 billion a year in parts from Mexico, equal to 16% of GM's total North American parts bill -- making Mexico the second-largest source of GM's parts behind the United States.
While hailing GM's commitment to North American suppliers, Andersson also made clear that the company must control costs to compete.
"We are an American company, but we are also a global company," he said. "I need to buy the best part with the best quality at the best landed cost."
In contrast, Among the top three Japanese automakers:
Toyota drew 75% of its parts value from U.S. or Canadian sources for the vehicles it made and sold in the United States last year, up from 57% in 2000 and 49% in 1995.
At Honda, 68% of its North American vehicles' parts value was U.S. or Canadian. That was down slightly from 70% in 2000 but up from 47% in 1995.
Nissan had the lowest total among Japan's Big Three at 57%, compared with 58% in 2000 and 42% in 1995.
My Accord was built in Marysville, Ohio. It's amazing how the Japanese can build their cars here, using American Labor and still turn out a great dependable automobile. It's not the labor that sucks, it's the design and management of the American Car Industry, that's the problem.
haha...your gonna get so owned on this thread.
"My Accord was built in Marysville, Ohio. It's amazing how the Japanese can build their cars here, using American Labor and still turn out a great dependable automobile. It's not the labor that sucks, it's the design and management of the American Car Industry, that's the problem."
That's very true, but you can't let labor off the hook. Their BS demands throughout the years and yes, management caving in has something to do with it. The Union bosses are so gung ho for power that they don't realize they are putting people out of work by making the companies they work for go bankrupt. Of maybe and don't care since the bosses get their paychecks and retirement paid for through the union.
I love American business. It's a shame how the American worker is killing it.
A company that has been losing steadily for years, and look what they do -they take the side of the perverts. Is it any wonder?
You people kill me. Blame it all on the unions, right? Don't hold management accountable at all. Don't blame management for their shortsightedness, poor engineering designs and cost cutting shortcuts to boost the 30 day profit margins.
Yeah blame the union guys, it's always the best answer here isn't it. Junior is clueless and is "driving" his families legacy into the ground once and for all.
But yeah, let's go with your wisdom.......blame the union workers.
In a right-to-work state?
Well...now you got me thinking. My single neighbor drives a purple jaguar.
Maybe the car didn't like you. My first car was a 1970 Torino GT and it was a solid tank that ran like a jack-rabbit. God how I wish I would have kept that car.
Please refer to my post #44.
LOL! Purple, dark or light?
There, happy (or do I need to start singing Led Zeppelin songs)?
It certainly didn't. At 13 months and approx 12,300 miles, aka shortly after the 'warranty' expired...
But yeah, it did haul butt. Burned rubber real good.
1970 Torino ? That's a long time to hold a grudge.
"You people kill me. Blame it all on the unions, right? Don't hold management accountable at all. Don't blame management for their shortsightedness, poor engineering designs and cost cutting shortcuts to boost the 30 day profit margins. "
Where in the world have you been? Plenty of us here have been just as hard on GM's and Ford's management. Part of the problem has been GM and Ford' s consistent record of caving to the unions, ala now GM has a pension problem.
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