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]]> By: Steve http://www.howwedrive.com/2008/10/27/unattractive-at-any-speed/#comment-3290 Steve Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:52:30 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=348#comment-3290 I can see why he's the former bureau chief. The general analysis of Detroit vs the Greenbelt car concerns is fairly accurate but a casual observer could and has drawn the same conclusions- namely that the foreign owned manufactures figured out the intelligent way to build cars and structure company operations and that the domestic manufactures have not. I would further conclude that in the case of Chrysler Daimler didn't give up on Chrysler because the products or the company were inferior- though the way the company is structured is flawed but they gave up because they failed to learn the hard lesson Renault learned at AMC's expense, a company that ironically Chrysler absorbed and then Chrysler failed to learn from AMC's main reason for demise- high labor costs and relatively low development cash. Even more ironic is that AMC was about to turn the corner as evidenced by the runaway sales success of the Cherokee line, though long term the aggregious labor contracts, despite concessions, that AMC was hobbled by would have had to be significantly be renegotiated. A situation that nearly 22 years later all three domestic owned manufacturers find themselves in. Ford did make some moves nearly three years ago to put themselves in a good cashflow position and to be able to offer up and tap into, if necessary, a fairly broad portfolio of cars that are appropriate to the times. I find it curious, speaking of appropriate to the times- that in thirteen model years of production ( if you include the Spirit Sedan and the 4 wheel drive Kammback )the Gremlin represented some sort of failure for AMC and signaled, in a broader sense, Detroit's lack of ability in addressing the starter car market. The Gremlin, a single model, attained the highest sales volume in AMC history for one distinct car. The anecdotal story about driving to work for Honda in a Gremlin- age and condition,or mileage unknown,was also somehow supposed to bean allegory for Detroit's woes. Factually it only served to show that the author is particularly unimaginative in picking on AMC ( no longer in business ), and in particular, the Gremlin, the subject of several equally unimaginative and ill informed "studies" on bad automotive ideas. The only bad idea related to the Gremlin here was the author's unoriginal and biased view. Steve Avery I can see why he’s the former bureau chief. The general analysis of Detroit vs the Greenbelt car concerns is fairly accurate but a casual observer could and has drawn the same conclusions- namely that the foreign owned manufactures figured out the intelligent way to build cars and structure company operations and that the domestic manufactures have not. I would further conclude that in the case of Chrysler Daimler didn’t give up on Chrysler because the products or the company were inferior- though the way the company is structured is flawed but they gave up because they failed to learn the hard lesson Renault learned at AMC’s expense, a company that ironically Chrysler absorbed and then Chrysler failed to learn from AMC’s main reason for demise- high labor costs and relatively low development cash. Even more ironic is that AMC was about to turn the corner as evidenced by the runaway sales success of the Cherokee line, though long term the aggregious labor contracts, despite concessions, that AMC was hobbled by would have had to be significantly be renegotiated.
A situation that nearly 22 years later all three domestic owned manufacturers find themselves in. Ford did make some moves nearly three years ago to put themselves in a good cashflow position and to be able to offer up and tap into, if necessary, a fairly broad portfolio of cars that are appropriate to the times. I find it curious, speaking of appropriate to the times- that in thirteen model years of production ( if you include the Spirit Sedan and the 4 wheel drive Kammback )the Gremlin represented some sort of failure for AMC and signaled, in a broader sense, Detroit’s lack of ability in addressing the starter car market. The Gremlin, a single model, attained the highest sales volume in AMC history for one distinct car. The anecdotal story about driving to work for Honda in a Gremlin- age and condition,or mileage unknown,was also somehow supposed to bean allegory for Detroit’s woes. Factually it only served to show that the author is particularly unimaginative in picking on AMC ( no longer in business ), and in particular, the Gremlin, the subject of several equally unimaginative and ill informed “studies” on bad automotive ideas. The only bad idea related to the Gremlin here was the author’s unoriginal and biased view.

Steve Avery

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