Re: Consider buying American!

Dave Plowman (News) <dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>It's not possible for a country like the US to compete *at all* in the
>world wide economy if you think the workforce wage cost is the only
>im****tant factor. You simply couldn't pay anyone as little as a Chinese
>labourer as they couldn't even afford to buy food at US prices. Or
>accommodation. Etc.  

It's hell at the bottom of the market.  You don't want to be competing 
solely on price, because no matter how cheap and lousy you can make a 
product, someone else can make it worse for less.

The only way American companies (and Europeans companies for that matter)
can compete in a global market is on quality.  You have to be able to sell
a better product.

For the most part, the American car manufacturers are falling down on the
job when it comes to selling a better product.  That's not because of the
workers, but they're the ones that are having to deal with the
consequences.

>Thing I've never understood is why the American cars we get in the UK -
at
>a far higher price than in the US - have such very poor interiors. Cheap
>plastics etc. After all UK (Euro) Fords and Vauxhalls are ok.

Because that's what Americans are willing to accept, so that's what the
manufacturers give us.  But then, I miss British cars with wooden
dashboards....  --scott

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