Force change in the automotive industry

It's time for you, the average consumer to take a stand!

Fellow consumers, for years we have been taken to the cleaners by the automotive industry: it's time for us to demand change in the quality of the product and how the industry does business! As consumers, we need to push the industry to change course and give us the best product and service may or let them die-let them go bankrupt! If only a few American companies could get survive-they could finally understand that Americans deserve and expect more.

Don't be fooled by the stories of bad economy and poor sales! U.s. auto industry has done this to ourselves!

I'm not saying that there is a bad economy, but have been on this road to destruction for a long time. I used to work in an Oldsmobile, Subaru dealership in 1986 we sold all models from both manufacturers, let me quote two models from the 80 's to make my point.

1) Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra wagon came with a 4-cylinder engine, air conditioning, radio, power steering, brakes, A.M., the approximate retail price was 10 k and 11 k.

2) Subaru GL wagon came with 4-cylinder engine, air conditioning, F.M. stereo, servo steering, power brakes, 4WD, electric Windows, power locks, split rear seats, rear defrost, front seats with multi position tiltracks, and more: the approximate retail price was 10 k and 11 k.

The children had a reputation for having great problems with engine and often would not have survived more than 100,000. Conversely, the Subaru was well known to survive 200,000 km plus with small engine problems. In addition, there was a huge difference in the characteristics of standard comfort for the same price-we sold Subaru at a rate of 40 to 1 compared to the toddlers.

The automotive industry of the United States continued down that path for several years, while the price of vehicles has increased drastically started to use financing tactics to sell their products below. The inevitable happened and many of the vehicles sold last but not least, the term of loans without major repairs and the resale value of a vehicle according to the U.S. was poor, so you may not exchange them without going backward financially.

Around 1990 car factory in the U.S. began to take heed, have produced some of best quality vehicles and kept prices stable. Unfortunately, along with the best quality product came a remarkable increase in the costs. So, repair bills began to rocket and continued to stay behind foreign competitors and their technology. Around 2000 it seemed that we went down new quality Department, around 2005 we started to get some, but I think it was too little and a little too late.

In 2008, Ford Motor Company has had an advertising campaign on stating that now they had cars with quality equivalent to Toyota. I don't know about you, but if I owned a Ford would feel as "great, Oh!" so I bought before 2008 Ford was certainly less

U.S. automakers sponsoring teams ran at a cost of millions of dollars a year: still grossly overpay their leaders: they are wildly exaggerated Union worker compensation: and yet, after at least two decades of foreign competitors nipping at their heels, there are still so far behind in technology and quality. Frankly, I don't understand why!

Now, after years of lower, upper, repair invoices, payments executives must have exuberant unions to work in plants, they put their hands out to the taxpayer because it printed? There should be no doubt about the answer: a resounding NO!

Thank you Mr Ford to make the model t and further, ushering in the industrial age, thank you U.S. auto production for the supply of good work for so many years: but you're a business after all, and must hold for do or die like the rest of the world of business!

I'm not arguing that Americans should buy foreign products-especially in our current economic crisis! However, most of the working group that the u.s. public has a limited amount of money for the purchase of the car that needs to use that limited quantity wisely. With past and current conditions of the highest quality of automobile industry, better comfort, more options for the same price suggests that foreign car manufacturers provide "more bang for the buck".

(By the way, I own two vehicles, one that I'm not satisfied at all and the other has so far * crossing fingers * been fantastic.)

My name is Christian Gillman, I worked in various fields of the automotive industry, including cars for sale, foreclosures, Auto Transport, car detailing, I saw the best and worst and I'm more of a consumer advocate

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