Originally Posted By: Tim H.
yes, and numbers can be 'spun' as well, while true, FORD employs 'more' folk than the foreign companies, but also look at what those people do, Ex: it takes say, 10 people to make a FORD, yet only 6 to make a Toyota (if you dispute those facts that it takes more people to build an American car than a foreign car, consider all the people that GM Ford, Chrysler have
laid off compared to foreign).
GM, Ford, and Chrysler made cuts to become "right sized" for the current market, not because they have superfluous jobs. And once again you keep focusing on the assembly line, JPC includes far more than the assembly line.
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Just because a company has more people building a car, does not mean they need more people.
Sure it does. It means that domestic car purchase supports more domestic jobs because that domestic car supports more domestic white collar jobs (indisputable), more domestic assembly plant jobs, and more domestic supplier jobs.
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I can have 10 people make my
McDonald's hamburger when in reality it only takes 5, so to employ those other 5 people, I need to raise my price for each burger, I then become unable to compete with
Asia-Burger because they can build a burger cheaper with thier 5 employees.
But that isn't the case here.
Originally Posted By: Ben99GT
And I have read reviews to the contrary. The new Taurus, while probably a well built car, is nothing more than a rebadged '500' that Ford couldn't sell well. and IIRC, reviews were not that great on it.
The new Taurus is a rebadged 500?
Are you living in 2008?
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http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/22/first-drive-2010-ford-taurus-the-once-and-future-king/
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http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/112_0909_2010_ford_taurus_sho_test/index.html
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http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/review-2010-ford-taurus/
Originally Posted By: Ben99GT
TATA motors wouldn't be in the process of buying Jag out. Ford tried to put US ingenuity into a European market, and it hasn't worked so well, why do you think the other cars FORD builds (for EU market)are not made or even remotely 'copied' for sale in the US?
Are you kidding me? Ford of Europe is kicking [censored] and taking names and has been for years. Ford sold Jag/LR because there is no way Jag was going to continue it's short term success with a global economy slump. Their predictions were true and TaTa is paying for it now. LR was a money maker and Jag was close to it when Ford sold them.
http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/48751...e-grow-in-april
The rags over there love comparing the hot rodded Focus to BMWs.
Originally Posted By: Ben99GT
The Sonata, and its 3.3 engine (designed/built in Alabama), were developed and tested in the US, for the US market.
Please provide evidence that the Lambda was designed
in the US. I could find no evidence of it, but I did find this:
http://auto-report.net/?p=2750
Namyang, Korea —
Hyundai Motor Company's Powertrain R&D Center at Namyang has developed a new high-performance V6 Lambda (λ) RS (Rear wheel drive Sports) engine which will see its first application in the Genesis Coupe to be launched in Korea this month.
Based on the highly successful Lambda first introduced in 2004, the RS edition features several key modifications which have raised power to a maximum of 310 ps @ 6300 rpm (310 hp for US Market) and peak torque to 36.8 kg/m @ 4700 rpm.
You need to lay off of the half-truths and misinformation if you want to continue this discussion. I refuse to spend all of my time correcting misinformation as opposed to the "debate" at hand.