Question:
It´s an investigation on the current state of the american automobile market:
What is happening with the local companies?
What role is Toyota playing in this case?
What economical phenomenom can explain what's going on?
What has been the response of the local companies?
Answers:
I have been employed in the auto industry for 24 years.
But I don't have the time or energy to type all day.
You can flip through my Q&A's
But 1st read this article: "What's An American Car ? ( where it's assembled is irrelevant)"
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The American automobile market has been in trouble ever since the oil embargoes in the mid 1970's.Detroit has never had a long term strategy to sustain the industry when changes in the economy force it to become more efficient.Instead of investing in alternative fuels for the past ten years the giant automakers have gorged themselves with the profits from gas guzzling behemoths.But they made that mistake over twenty years ago.And the American taxpayer will eventually pick up the tab.Like we did for Chrysler.Local companies that supply parts to the auto industry are the hardest hit besides the people who have lost not only jobs but pensions.The way that Detroit chose to innovate was to replace workers with robots.More money for the overpaid executives who failed to foresee that Asia was going to push the price of petroleum higher as they bought outsourced labor products from the same countries.It has always been about the short-term bottom line.The role that Toyota has played is that it has become virtually interchangeable with our domestic automakers.Even in the full-sized truck market it can't be denied that Toyota builds a quality product.More Questions & Answers ...
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