I fully agree that the 'bean counters' are the ones that are driving down quality control. But I wonder what the average car would cost if every part in it was first class quality? Would we be looking at Mercedes prices?
I don't know what happened to Ford's "quality is job 1" but that company philosophy disappeared years ago. Most insiders blame Jac Nasser for putting the bean counters ahead of the engineers. Even though Jac is gone (with a nice golden parachute), you can be assured the bean counters are still there in force. You'd think when you paid $30,000-$50,000 for a Ford product, you'd get better quality components than you did in the 60's, but I don't think that's the case.
