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Date Posted: 11:23:57 12/03/12 Mon
Author: bill
Author Host/IP: 71.172.172.212
Subject: Re:Corvair?
In reply to: Craig 's message, "Re:Corvair?" on 09:42:57 12/03/12 Mon

You were lucky to survive in the auto industry through the late seventies to 1990. It was a period of major mistakes and government interference that almost ruined the US auto industry with crap regs and half measures made to comply with them . It was also the period when the insurance comapnies were messing with the market to keep up with government regs which began in the early seventies and helped make the muscle car a thing of the past.
Feed back carbs and crash safety regs were nearly the last straw and only the change to fuel injection, major advances in computer control and the adoption of the car body that collapses aroung the passenger compartment kept them going but cost the end consumer much more money and raised insurance rates to cover the costs .... alll thanks to ncle sugar and his meddlin' ways.
You were also lucky to survive those massive layoffs post 9 11 that decimated the corporate world while the economy recoverd from what the attack did to it. People forget how bad that period was for many people who ost their jobs as a result and the fact that the bush period recovery was so steep and fast till the market collapse after the last mid term election in his administration when the shit hit the fan and the sub prime lending scams came out in the open showing that most of the real estate boom was a sham and that the financial p[eople had scrambled to cover their collective asses for when it all went bad which if you think about it was an ineviatble consequence of the keansian economic philosphy we had been operating under since the fourties.
Even MB had problems with their lower cost models some of which I had to work on and some of which had body rot problems that youu could really not fix making suspension problems that should have been grounds for many of the lowere cost models being recalled as lemons beginning with the design process. that cost them a big share of the market that BMW and the Japanese upscale luxury models captured wheile Audi got their act together and began making good cars again instead of those 80s money pits they were selling with the bad radiators which killed engines and poor quality bodywork that didn't last as long as the engines in many cases.

I could go on forever with this stuff but why bother, it is all past and proloque to the much better stuff they all make these days but at what cost ????

b

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