The actual salary paid to Ford/Chrysler/GM workers is not much different from that paid to Toyota/Honda workers in the US. The difference in pension requirements is very large -- because F/C/GM have 50+ years of retired workers still living and drawing, whereas T/H has only been assembling cars in the US since the early 1980s.
The fact is, as Justin says, is that F/C/GM are ridiculously inefficient and extremely bad at predicting what the market will want to buy.
How many lines does Toyota have? 3. High-end is Lexus, most cars are Toyotas, and the edgy line is Scion.
How many lines does have Honda have? 2. Honda and Acura.
Ford? Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Mazda and Volvo. What the heck is the differentiation between a Ford and a Mercury?
GM? Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GM Daewoo, GMC, Hummer, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn, and outside the US, Holden, Opel, Vauxhall, and Wuling. Oy.
And Chrysler is 80% owned by Mega-Evil Corporation, aka Cerberus Capital.
They all need to get crunched into the jaws of reorganization.
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The actual salary paid to Ford/Chrysler/GM workers is not much different from that paid to Toyota/Honda workers in the US. The difference in pension requirements is very large -- because F/C/GM have 50+ years of retired workers still living and drawing, whereas T/H has only been assembling cars in the US since the early 1980s.
The fact is, as Justin says, is that F/C/GM are ridiculously inefficient and extremely bad at predicting what the market will want to buy.
How many lines does Toyota have? 3. High-end is Lexus, most cars are Toyotas, and the edgy line is Scion.
How many lines does have Honda have? 2. Honda and Acura.
Ford? Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Mazda and Volvo. What the heck is the differentiation between a Ford and a Mercury?
GM? Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GM Daewoo, GMC, Hummer, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn, and outside the US, Holden, Opel, Vauxhall, and Wuling. Oy.
And Chrysler is 80% owned by Mega-Evil Corporation, aka Cerberus Capital.
They all need to get crunched into the jaws of reorganization.