Yeah - even though I'm not North American by birth, I easily saw over the years, how much the public had been sucked into Japanese (and European) car mode. And the stupid NA auto manufacturers got just as sucked in and tried to compete with the little 4-cyl jobs. Americans were (and as far as I'm concerned still are) masters of the V8 and big 6 engines... I watched a documentary on how the NA auto designer boys designed all the "esoteric" cars that were around when I first set foot in Canada around 1968. Outstanding.
So a few months ago I leased a Charger with a HEMI engine (after driving a Ford truck for 10 years)... Excellent car... but politically incorrect.... as if I care. Now if you want to see what the Bean Counters (government Bean Counters, no less) did to what could have been outstanding American nuclear power plant design by Oppenheimer and his group, read "Disturbing the Universe" by Freeman Dyson. This is what you could call "one-dimensional thinking." P. ----- Original Message ---- From: R C Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2008 8:33:41 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: "Tooo" obvious for Detroit? Howdy Vorts, People and their love affairs with their autos. Any fleet operator can show records that prove the Chevrolet autos and small trucks are the best all around. We have a chev fleet, we try other brands for experience but it's Chevrolet. Ever see a fleet of Lexus or Mercedes? Or Toyota trucks ? We can run a fleet of Chev pickups at near zero maintenance and trade when they teach 150,000 miles. Funny, some have a metal ID shows assembled in Jaurez Mexico. Ask anybody that uses Toyota and Mercedes what service costs at their dealership.. notice one of the billionaires listed in this years survey is a Toyota dealer in Texas. GM had the truck engine that won WW2, a 6 cyl workhorse. Germany built the tiger tank, the fighter plane and the 88 long gun but they couldn't build a 6x6 2 1/2 ton truck. It was management at GM that sold GM down the river, the poor dumb people that worked there just built the best.. thank you Roger Smith for the memories, and thank you ITT. ITT was the Mafia wire service telephone company for the Cuba and south. After Castro took over, ITT claimed a loss and was compensated by the US. They took the money and bought US companies and hired accountants to parlay the cash outa the kazoo. They were the teachers of tactics practiced by accountants since. There is not a US insurance company that has a dime in cash in a US bank today. GMAC is now owned by HSBC, a Chinese Hong Kong bank run by British bankers (but never a US trained accountant).. Arthur Anderson CPA and Enron.. no place but Texas. We should know by the ides of March if the banking and financial system of the USA will survive as we know it. The turkeys are trying hard enough to destroy it. Now for the good news... Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "thomas malloy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: "Tooo" obvious for Detroit? > Terry Blanton wrote: > >>I can't allow the denigration of engineers in the automotive industry >>continue. I had a friend who was an engineering manager in Detroit >> > I agree, IMHO, it's the MBA's and the lawyers.
