I can remember the "ka-ching" of my Datsun minitruck door closing, versus
the solid "thunk" of my wife's Pinto door. US made was demonstrably
different in other ways as well in those days.

US firms invested more in their people than the Japanese, and were working
in older factories to begin with.

"WD" wrote in message
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On 1 Sep 2004 09:12:00 -0700, (Hylourgos) wrote:

Why are you depressed? Many once great companies died along the wayside
cuz,
they were like the dinosaurs, were unwilling to change clinging to their
old
ways of doing business and many are just simply greedy.

In the 60's GM had about 60% (pls don't hold me to the figure) of the
market
shares. Datsun's (Nissan today) Blue Bird in the same period look like a
toy,
you will laugh till all your teeth's falls off. All the Japanese vehicles
were
really cheap ****. Japanese's cars take to and from the places you wanna
go.
They reinvest their profit and improve....blah, blah, blah. You won't
laugh at
them today, Toyota out sell GM and admire all over the world.