"Tony Hwang" wrote in message ...


I think about two factors, US auto makers always chucked away good design
when people liked it and kept bad ones in the market.

How many examples of that can you provide? And if Detroit "always" gets rid
of good designs, why have successful and popular designs like F-series
pickups, and the Mustang, and various Cadillac and Jeep models, and the
Explorer and so on and so forth been in production for years and even
decades?

Part of quality problem was union. They only worked hard for higher wages
and benefits not improving their workmanship.

As opposed to non-union workers who don't care about pay and benefits, only
about being good at what they do.

As a result GM and Chrysler almost went belly up.

When a company gets into trouble the first place to look for an explanation
is management. If the union is to blame, then why didn't Ford (which signs
contracts with the same union as GM and Chrysler) get into the same trouble,
or if you prefer, why did Ford do so much better than the other Detroit auto
makers? Unions can certainly be *part* of the problem, but management is at
the head of the list.