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Charlie Nudo, dead last in life.
I'd say a Cadillac, GMC truck, Buick, Pontiac, Chevy truck is a mighy
**** better than a Honda- if ever there was a massed produced "burger" of a car, it's a 4-cylinder Honda-bomb you got SCREWED !! (BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!) ps- you could've had a V-8 ! |
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Charlie Nudo, dead last in life.
now we're starting to understand why, "bicycle" was divorced, tried to
commit suicide, got kicked out of the Navy, and is now on Prozac. you got quite an obsession going there, Bikey...nothing else better to do ? so much for all your alleged Ebay sales. and no, you don't get to see my Saturn wagon, until I drive it down your street one day, and park in your driveway |
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Charlie Nudo, dead last in life.
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Charlie Nudo, dead last in life.
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proof the schizophrenia has become uncontrollable for Charlie Nudo
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while GM is still number one- and will now merger with Ford-and kick ricer Jap ass
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"bicycle, The Fifth Wheel King" > wrote: > Yeah, like why would Ford and GM even talk unless they were getting > their asses kicked, like you on Usenet. Are two cripples better than one? Well if their disability is different it's possible there is some gain. |
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while GM is going tits up- and will now merge with another loser, Ford- the Japs will eat them alive
DeserTBoB wrote:
> On 24 Sep 2006 16:29:23 -0700, wrote: .. . . > Right on her > heels will have to be another chick CEO, Pat Russo at Lucent, as big a > loser as there ever was, and a direct product of Bob Allen's > destruction of Western Electric in the '70s. Another one that'll soon > be shown to be grossly incompetent: Meg Whitman of eBay, who seem > completely oblivious to eBay's huge fraud complicity problem and the > importance of the Tiffany lawsuit.. Yup, I remember having some problems with Lucent about 10 years ago. They refused to ever let you talk to any Engineer. Customers were only allowed to talk to salesmen. They expected you to specify a part and risk the success of a project based on inadequate documentation and the claims of their salesmen. eBay turns a blind eye to Mom and Pop computer assemblers who are selling computers without UL or FCC certification. I suppose it is legal to sell computers without safety certification, but it isn't legal to sell them without an FCC sticker. The bottom line is that some of these Mom and Pop system integrators are buying ultra cheap parts (that don't last long) and are ripping off the public. Anyway, it's hard to convince anyone who hasn't seen it first hand that we have a serious problem in the U.S. with corporations with an attitude. In the meantime jobs will continue to go to foreign companies. |
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while GM is going tits up- and will now merge with another loser, Ford- the Japs will eat them alive
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:54:23 -0700, "Ted Mittelstaedt"
> wrote: >That is because the US manufacturers all came from the Old Northwest >(great lakes) and in that area of the country the snow is very bad and so >everyone salts the roads, and the cars all rust out quickly. It's a >different >mentality. That doesen't happen on the West Coast nor does it happen in >Japan, either. The folks that run car manufacturers in the US all have >blinders >on. <snip> True. Example is my old reliable grocery getter, the '77 Accord. In New England, throughout the Rust Belt and the Great Lakes region, these cars didn't last long at all because of body rot. However, out here, it's almost 30 years, and not a spec of rust at all anywhere. The only time cars rust in California is if they're by the beach, or up north, where it rains a lot. In the desert here, it's very common to see old bodies from the '40s with only light surface rust that can be wiped off with some #500, since the original lacquer and primer was eaten years ago by the excessive UV from the sun. The '55 Dodge Royal Lancer I had put a bid on had the same...zero rust, and mid-'50s Chrsyler products were well known for having rust problems elsewhere. Take away the body and chassis rust problem, and add good maintenance, you have a car that can last as long as you can get critical moving parts spares...and I can STILL get most part needed to keep that Accord in top running shape from either Honda or aftermarket suppliers. Cars in Los Angeles proper, however, do suffer some surface corrosion damage due to salt air and a lot of fog caused by the onshore marine layer. > >That really isn't actually what is going on or what the real problem is. >People always claim quality is why the Japanese are ahead but this >is nothing more than repetition of a clever advertising campaign. <snip> I agree that "Japanese quality" is more myth than reality now, but 20 years ago, the Japanese were building far better quality cars than were the Big 3, especially in "eyeball" areas, like fit and finish. As was proven by Mitsubishi and some others, though, sometimes their mechanical designs weren't very good. OTOH, you had pioneer Japanese cars like the Datsun 510 that could easily outlast a Chevy Nova three engines to one. That's what started the exodus away from the Big 3...a true quality reputation, not just a "perceived" one. Now, the Big 3 has narrowed the gap considerably since around 1980, when GM especially was building some of the ****tiest cars in the world. > >The simple, real, fundamental problem is that it costs more for GM >to build a car than it costs Toyota to build a car. If Toyota and GM were >to swap designs tomorrow, and build each other's cars, Toyota would >still kick the crap out of GM. <snip> Most of GM's problem is mutton-headed management, a culture that was permanently installed under their worst CEO, Roger Smith. They, like those at the "old" AT&T, were imbued with a sense of imperviousness to competition, that they set the standards and would always be #1. This started back in the early '70s with the "less car for more money" decontenting campaign, but Smith turned it into an entire culture. After getting rid of him, Stempel and other followers, like Armstrong at AT&T after they got rid of Allen, didn't have a hell of a lot left to work with, and the "corporate culture" was completely in charge, no matter what the guy at the top did. Armstrong at AT&T didn't have the guts to go up against a huge executive corps of power wielding snipers, and I'm sure Waggoner has wound up with the same problem already in Detroit. > >And, why is this? Well, GM claims it's all that health care costs >for it's pensioners. But the real truth is that the UAW over the >years has fought every attempt to roboticize auto manufacturing, >thus leaving the US manufacturers with old technology in manufacturing, >what requires a lot of human assembly line people. <snip> That's simply not true. The UAW has conceded, years ago in fact, that automation is now part and parcel of manufacturing. > >Here's a great article that discusses this: > >http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArti...rticleID=11781 <snip> A shill article designed to keep GM (one of their big advertising accounts) happy. The truth is somewhere else. You seem to think that GM, Ford and DC all have disparate labor agreements, and they don't. The "Big 3" still do "pattern bargaining," much the same way they did with UAW in the days of Walter Reuther. Thus, what one of them gets, they all get. Chrysler, under Iacocca, got Belvidere III because he was smart, could negotiate with the UAW, and worked toward a goal, something GM management cannot do, because they do not understand the definition of "work." >What is going on today with places like the Chrysler Belvidere Ill >assembly plant, where the entire body shop is robotic, is what Toyota >and the Japanese automakers have been doing for years. GM isn't >doing this, because to do this means fewer autoworkers, and the >UAW won't stand for this. <snip> Again, not true. GM COULD do this if they wanted to, but rather that do it and do the WORK necessary to design, refit and deploy full robotics, as well as redeploy and/or early retire idled auto workers, they send the workers to the "job bank" to sit and read the paper for 8 hours a day. Even UAW rank and file AND their elected leaders know this is a complete waste, but they're trapped. Rather than shuffle the staffing assignments and offer the worker's an early pension incentive, GM would rather pay them full pay, plus benefits, to go sit in the "job bank," usually a large room in a shut down plant somewhere in Michigan, with chairs and tables, and a GM manager with a watch, waiting for someone to leave the table for more than 15 minutes on break or a half hour for lunch. THIS is the kind of management that's killing GM, NOT their "legacy costs" they keep whining about. This entire issue was covered in depth by the LA Times, the Financial Times and the Washington Post awhile back, NOT by the GM-licking Detroit News. >People simply don't understand how fundamental the change in >modern manufacturing has become with the introduction of computers. >Consistent quality in manufacturing is a side benefit to removing >the human beings from the manufacturing loop, but the real benefit is >reduced cost to manufacture. <snip> True to a certain point, but you still need support staff to run the robotized assembly plants. The UAW wanted GM to retrain assembly line workers for these jobs, but GM decided, AFTER the negotiations, that didn't want to do so. So, off to the job bank go all the otherwise laid of workers, to sit...making full pay and benefits, while GM management sits in King Henry Ford II's Renaissance Center with their hands up their collective asses. Due to GM's lousy management being so entrenched, about the best thing that could happen to the company now IS a complete shutdown and elimination through a complete takeover. That's what happened to "old" AT&T. Whitacre gobbled up the old New Jersey giant, ****canned all the prima donna Bob Allen management, and now has SBC people from the former SWBT and Pacfic Telephone RBOCs running the show, with the middle and executive level goofs that sunk "old" AT&T forced into early retirement or into simple layoff. Whitacre himiself is an SWBT RBOC veteran of some 30 years, and knows how telephone companies are supposed to work, and he knows exactly how AT&T screwed up over the years, as does anyone with half a brain who worked there at the time. An indication of how well this is working is that, since getting rid of all the "old" AT&T management, AT&T's common stock, which was in single digits under Armstrong, is now back on the rise even after factoring in the addition of SBC equity, as is their customer base. The only way GM and Ford are going to turn around at all is a THOROUGH replacement of current management. Billy Boy Ford, being the good rat he is, already jumped the sinking ship, and now it's Rick Waggoner's turn. But just making a CEO walk the plank isn't enough. As Iacocca learned at Chrysler, you have to cut DEEP and know WHERE to cut, and have talent at the ready to fill the vacated responsbilities. This takes hard work, something most American managers these days are allergic to doing, simply because of an attitude of entitlement and freedom to delegate real work to others who don't have the authority to do it. If Iacocca could do all this with Chrysler (which was in worse shape than both GM and Ford are in now), those two behemoths can do it fairly easily IF each finds the right guy to do the job. The problem is finding someone for that leadership position with the brains and the knowledge to pull it off. There ARE no new Iacoccas in the US auto industry anymore...they're all Bill Ford and Rich Waggoner clones. GM has one ace in the hole, and he's an ex-Iacocca protégé...Lutz, a real "car guy." Ford has no such sleeper in the wings, and in that regard, is in real trouble. Billy Boy Ford, being the paranoid scion of King Henry II, made sure to burn bridges for anyone competent beneath him so as to insure his tenure as long as he wanted it. When things started getting too hot for him, he simply bailed out, leaving the S.S. Ford to flounder. Now, he can tell his screwy relatives, "Hey...wasn't MY fault!". By the way, the assertion that somehow robotics cures all manufacturing ill is also patently false. The UAW local at the GM Canda Van Nuys, CA plant, in a last ditch effort to save the plant, entered into a voluntary Saturn-like quality program, headed up by UAW members and GM floor supervisors, to improve product assembly quality. The Camaros and Firebirds that were the result of this effort indeed showed that excellent assembly quality isn't the province of robots at all...the '90-'92 pony car line was some of the best ever assembled. The problem was, they had a really ****ty car from 1979 to work with! It doesn't matter HOW good the final assembly is...if the design sucks as bad as the Camaro/Firebird '79 design did, you wind up with a ****ty car...end of argument! Rather than allow Van Nuys to put out a good car with the '93 model year redesign, they simply shut down the plant...they didn't even TRY. This was even after UAW agreed to as much as 80% robotics in the entire plant and "5 and 5" retirement incentives. GM management simply didn't want to do with pencil work and thinking...they just trashed a fairly modern plant, built as a Chevrolet Division assembly plant in 1946, in their biggest market. It's now a big shopping mall. So, in '93, to get their "new" Camaros and Firebirds to their biggest market in the US, they had to be shipped by rail all the way from Ohio. Prior to that, many LA dealers simply took delivery right from the factory's door and DROVE the cars to their lots with "lot boys." Who paid for that extra transportation expense? The customer, who else? How do I know? My wife had one of the last '92 Camaros off the Van Nuys line. The assembly quality was easily the best I'd seen on any GM car since the early 1960s...but the car design itself was crap. The well-fitted panels and interior details were sort of like putting llipstick on a pig! But, we never had one take-back to the dealer for an assembly screwup....not one. Failing parts body parts due to bad design? Screwed-up gas tank necks from bad design requring a recall? Bad speed sensors in the L60E transmission? Badly design "ground effects" panels that needed constant repaints? Failing AC compressor cluch solenoids? Failing instrument cluster PWBs? Yeah, we had that, and more. |
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while GM is going tits up- and will now merge with another loser, Ford- the Japs will eat them alive
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