Originally Posted By: asand1
For a long time there was no innovation in the auto industry because union workers did not have to compete, they were guaranteed a job. It was the Japanese that pioneered DOHC and VVT and other such INNOVATIONS. and they took pride in building a high quality product. Unions are just pridefulo, they have no reason for their pride though. What new thing did FORD, GM, and Dodgey invent that wasn't a disaster?
No it wasn't, it was the Japanese that primarily revised and managed to produce affordably technologies that were mostly pioneered by the Germans. Basically every safety innovation came from Mercedes for example. [censored], they invented the bloody car, LOL!
VVT was first implemented by the Italians, IIRC, and Ford had DOHC engines before Honda was making cars:
I sense a great deal of revisionist history here. The Japanese have been great at taking features and revising them and making them:
A) Simpler and by extension, usually more reliable.
B) Through A, making them more affordable and subsequently putting them in less expensive cars.
DI for yet another example, was first used by Mercedes in automotive applications. VW/Audi was using it well before anybody else in recent history. But their implementation had issues. Current iterations from Ford, GM and the Japanese, are not plagued by those same issues.
If we compare fuel injection systems from even the 80's, Honda primarily used something that resembled TBI, whilst by 1986, Ford had sequential injection (developed with Intel and Bosch) on anything that wasn't a truck (they got batch-fire port injection).