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Cub, almost the same thing happened to "THE WIFE". Being
a loyal Chrysler employee she bought a Dodge Dart, SCAT" one
time. The only thing was all the markings on the outside of
the car were "Dodge SCAT" while all the markings on the inside were
"Plymouth Road Runner". At Ford, back in the early
80's, a fellow co-worker bought a Ford "Fairlane" that had Red Door
Panels, his first choice, on one side and Green on the other side his
second choice. Being in Value Engineering also allowed me to see
just about "ALL" makes and models sold in the USA, American, Japanese's,
both US assembled and Japanese's assembled, plus most of
Europe. The thing that got all of us engineer's was the
Japanese vehicles. High Tech my ass, most were very low tech
pieces of junk, put together fairly well, must say the early ones
were built a lots better than anything we, All of the US based Car/Truck
companies built. It was a wake up call. In the mid 80's we
measure vehicles in "Repairs per 100, and the Camery was the best @ 117/
repairs per 100. The 86 Taurus was Ford's quality leader
@ 174 repairs per 100 and it was also the fourth best built vehicle "Sold"
in the US. Today, even with all of the transplants
things have gotten 10 times better. When I retired in 93
we were measuring our quality in repairs per 1000 and today the best
built/assembled vehicle ,mass produced, sold in the US is the Ford
Taurus @ 114/ repairs per 1000. Running a very close second is
the Camery @ 118/ repairs per 1000. We got all of our quality
information through dual dealerships. I think the worst
built vehicle sold in the US today, I forgot just what
model Cadillac, is only 147/ repairs per 1000. And that's
a whole lot better than the Camery was back in the the mid to late
80's.
Well enough of my soap boxing got to stumble on out and meet the day,
and I do mean "STUMBLE"
RK
Manufacturer's of World Class Golf Club Repair
Equipment
-------Original Message-------
Date: Friday, October
18, 2002 7:59:53 PM
Subject: ShopTalk: Re:
RK and My GMEvy Discovery
RK,
I was at a Chevy/GMC dealer in Colorado one
day. I was trying to deal with him on a new Silverado. While I was waiting
I checked out a new GMC. When the salesman was ready to talk to me I
asked him how much he wanted for the GMC out front. He said "Oh, that
one. You must have looked at it from the right side". I gave
him a puzzled look and he told me to go around the truck again. Sure
enough the right side was marked GMC, the left was Chevy, the grill was
GMC and the tailgate was Chevy. The truck must have been made on a
Monday!
I ended up down the road where I drove away
with a F150 4x4 King Cab ;-) I haven't owned
anything else but Ford trucks since!
Cub
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