Originally posted by SILFROSvT98: The best engineers in Japan and Germany build things well to help people. America's best engineers build things well to blow people up.
American car manufacturers have some of the best engineers in the world. What makes many American cars $hitboxes isn't poor engineering, its BEANCOUNTING. As I said about a month ago, engineers specify parts , good quailty ones, they specify robust designs. The BEANCOUNTERS [censored] and moan that those parts are too expensive, or that that assembly method takes 3/10 of a second more than this method. Since they make all the decisions, their stupid, short sided ways to save money win.
In the long run it is the BEANCOUNTER who screws over the American automaker, because the cheap parts fail. Everytime a car is recalled to correct the poor quality parts they spend more money to fix it than it would have cost to do it right the first time. Recalls piss off customers, and when every single Ford vehicle you have ever owned has been recalled multiple times, you don't buy Ford again.
