DTJ
To an extent the same is true in Europe. The domestically built Japanese branded cars are excellent. Not all of them are exciting, innovative, nice to drive or perfect but they are well built and long lasting while being durable and reliable in their respective clbuttes. This has dragged the quality of European brands up because they have to be compebreastive to survive. Over the last few years Ford have actually been building really good cars like the Focus and the Mondeo instead of the rubbish they built pre mid 90's. It is ironic that such a good car as the Mondeo is now actually outsold by a 'premium' model such as the BMW 3 series though. Maybe thay left it too late to build good cars? This is one reason, perhaps the only reason, that aquiring premium brands like Land Rover, Jaguar and Volvo was so important to Ford. They could see that a majority of customers in Europe were willing to pay a premium for a badge and for style as well as build and dynamic quality. It is most unfortunate that the UK Pound is so strong in relation to a weak Dollar which is detrimental to two of these brands profitability for Ford.
Built like a Mercedes 3652For a while cheap-labour countries have an advantage but this erodes with time. (Taiwan-to-mainland China shift is one example.) At first simple machinery is produced at...
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