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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 146 points 22 hours ago (9 children)

They have never considered actually competing have they?

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 79 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They’ve actually done the exact opposite. The lobbying, the import laws, the absence of a foreign export market, and the manufacturing of cars that would never pass safety laws anywhere else, all resulted in the kind of dogshit that Americans have to experience now. Why improve if you’re the only player

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

They have an export market, its the handful of douchebags in Australia that want compensator trucks instead of a ute

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Big corporations know very well how competition works and would like to avoid it at all costs.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Former big corporation*

Who also worked primarily in Chinese Automotive industry*

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They saw what happened in the 70s and said never again will they have to actually compete with better products

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Toyota had small, fuel efficient cars and that’s what people wanted during the oil crisis.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, them and Datsun. Super reliable cars when US manufacturers were ugly slow tanks that wouldn't make it 80,000 miles.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They do. For example here. Just not in your country.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago

They don’t compete here either.

They’ve stopped producing passenger cars, and the Chicken Tax means they don’t have to compete on trucks.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Couldn't have a thought further from his mind

[–] NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Nah man, that's not the purpose of unrestrained capitalism. The point is to get big enough that you can buy out all the competition, then make your product cheaper and cheaper once there's no one to compete against. It's a bit like an economical algae bloom.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Detroit is easy to hate but there’s more wrong here than how much can-do energy they wake up in the morning with. If they competed on features and quality they could never compete on price. Everything we do to keep the dollar strong makes it impossible to manufacture here.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago

Michael Dunne has been competing the entire time, for the Chinese. His statements here aren't fear, they're shillery.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 19 hours ago

They saw what happened in the 70s and said never again will they have to actually compete with better products