Hello Jim,
What you advocate is EXACTLY what went wrong in Detroit. (Not that ALL
auto makers aren't in trouble right now, except oddly enough SUBARU??)
While Toyota and Honda were looking at 3 or 4 year product cycles,
constantly improving between times but completely REPLACING with all new,
GM and FORD kept making the same car on the same platform. The FOX platform
underpinned cars for around TWENTY YEARS. The Frame for the '80's IMPALA
ran nearly as long. They both figured "as long as it making a profit, why
change?" Because innovative companies were about to eat their lunch, that's
why!. Heck the Corvette, at 50 years old, and World Beater that it is, has
only had SEVEN platform changes.
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Best regards,
Bill L. mailto:pythias@pacifier.com
'66 Sprite MKIII HAN8L49403 "the red thing"
"Fire!" yelled Tom alarmingly.
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