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George Orwell
Volvos or Fords, same eniggerneering.
There's not a spittoonful worth of difference except for the name.
Alan Mulally knows this because he's a Boeing man. He knows the FAA
certification board would laugh him all the way to the outhouse if either
one of these automobile brands were airplanes. There is virtually nothing
in these cars that even remotely approach the design philosophy, materials,
or production methods used even in the cheapest light planes, which cost
less than some overpriced road iron.
I have a Detroit Iron Wonder. It must have at least two hundred wires and
plastic connectors just for the integrated charging, fuel, and ignition
system. None of these wires are silver plated. None of these connections
are gold plated, each of which cost all of 2 cents to do. Silver and gold
plating makes for non-corrosive connections. None of these connections are
metal shrouded, waterproof and mechanically secure. When some of these
connections go bad, it takes a rocket scientist at $120 an hour to figure
it out. Half the cars on the junk heap are there because of one bad
connection nobody could figure out. Thanks Chrysler, Ford, GM and Volvo.
Not to mention all current cars have too touchy steering, gas pedals, and
nothing is easy to service. Mulally, at $120 an hour shop time, think five
minute replacement of alternator, starter, water pump, air-con compressor,
clutch plate, power steering pump, power brake booster, radiator, radio
receiver, heater/air-con core or any dashboard gauge. Mulally, THINK.
I don't want to hear my ideas would make a car cost $1,000,000. You could
buy Piper Cub once for $1200, when cheap cars were $800, a ratio of 1.5:1;
therefore if a car can be made to present low life standards for $18000,
then one to my pedigreed can be done for $24,000, well within the range of
today's prices. So called luxury cars today cost five times what an entry
level car costs and are made not one iota better. Its a ripoff and
everybody knows it and its showing up in listless sales. Mulally, do some
history research on this subject and come up with an honest car, not some
warmed over lead sled.
Lead sled rings a bell. Sure, you can get today's lead sleds to get an
advertised 30 mpg, but only with streamlining, low rolling resistance
tires, level roads, trick overdrive transmissions, cleaning out the trunk,
running on empty and driven by a 90 pound ex-horse jockey. But, once you
add in hills, stop and go driving, and add mvgw payloads, your mileage goes
to pot because your cars are at least 3/4 ton overweight. Advertise that!
Junk, junk, and more junk, for decades on end. That's all we get from auto
makers.
There's not a spittoonful worth of difference except for the name.
Alan Mulally knows this because he's a Boeing man. He knows the FAA
certification board would laugh him all the way to the outhouse if either
one of these automobile brands were airplanes. There is virtually nothing
in these cars that even remotely approach the design philosophy, materials,
or production methods used even in the cheapest light planes, which cost
less than some overpriced road iron.
I have a Detroit Iron Wonder. It must have at least two hundred wires and
plastic connectors just for the integrated charging, fuel, and ignition
system. None of these wires are silver plated. None of these connections
are gold plated, each of which cost all of 2 cents to do. Silver and gold
plating makes for non-corrosive connections. None of these connections are
metal shrouded, waterproof and mechanically secure. When some of these
connections go bad, it takes a rocket scientist at $120 an hour to figure
it out. Half the cars on the junk heap are there because of one bad
connection nobody could figure out. Thanks Chrysler, Ford, GM and Volvo.
Not to mention all current cars have too touchy steering, gas pedals, and
nothing is easy to service. Mulally, at $120 an hour shop time, think five
minute replacement of alternator, starter, water pump, air-con compressor,
clutch plate, power steering pump, power brake booster, radiator, radio
receiver, heater/air-con core or any dashboard gauge. Mulally, THINK.
I don't want to hear my ideas would make a car cost $1,000,000. You could
buy Piper Cub once for $1200, when cheap cars were $800, a ratio of 1.5:1;
therefore if a car can be made to present low life standards for $18000,
then one to my pedigreed can be done for $24,000, well within the range of
today's prices. So called luxury cars today cost five times what an entry
level car costs and are made not one iota better. Its a ripoff and
everybody knows it and its showing up in listless sales. Mulally, do some
history research on this subject and come up with an honest car, not some
warmed over lead sled.
Lead sled rings a bell. Sure, you can get today's lead sleds to get an
advertised 30 mpg, but only with streamlining, low rolling resistance
tires, level roads, trick overdrive transmissions, cleaning out the trunk,
running on empty and driven by a 90 pound ex-horse jockey. But, once you
add in hills, stop and go driving, and add mvgw payloads, your mileage goes
to pot because your cars are at least 3/4 ton overweight. Advertise that!
Junk, junk, and more junk, for decades on end. That's all we get from auto
makers.