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Originally Posted by jamesqf
EXACTLY! That is a big part of what I have been saying all along: Detroit doesn't make/sell small cars because of its entrenched mental block that causes it to see small cars as cheap, appealing only to people who really want a bigger car but can't afford one. So the people who want quality small cars don't buy the cheap and low quality small cars that Detroit thinks ought to appeal to that part of the mass market.
I may be wrong, but it seems to me that most of the really successful small cars in the US market did so because they fit the needs/desires of a niche market, not because they were cheap "econoboxes".
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ok, you dont get it.
There is no 'entreched mental block'! that is a simpleton way of thinking.
There is, however, a built in cost that other((non-big three) manufactures do not have,
Detroit cant even began to think about making a mini because there is no volume. THey have to have volume to cove the costs accoiated with each car produced.
Do you(in the plural) really not understand business models?
Do you not understand that the bail out/ jimmied bankruptcy did not provide a 'clean sheet of paper' like it is suppose to?
Where is the out rage with one person - obama -deciding who get preferential treatment and who doesnt?
Where is the outrage when $26 BILLION disappears down a rat hole?