<VV> Quality

[RoboMan91324 at aol.com]

Ken,
 
At that time, Japanese cars were not considered to have  "foreign car 
prestige" as you put it.  They were universally looked down on  for reasons 
previously discussed.  The prestige was limited to  Mercedes, Porsche, Audi, Jaguar, 
RR, some British sport cars and  exotics.
 
I am not sure this discussion is appropriate for VV but I  guess auto quality 
issues and history sort of fits here.  Should we take  this to VV-talk?  
Opinions?
 
Doc
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In a message dated 11/10/2008 9:01:01 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:

Message:  4
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:29:05 -0500
From: Kenneth E Pepke  <kenpepke at juno.com>
Subject: Re: <VV> Quaility
To:  virtualvairs at corvair.org
Message-ID:  <20081110.082905.-310367.1.kenpepke at juno.com>
Content-Type:  text/plain

Dr. Deming first went to Japan in the late 40s ... It took  some time and a 
huge amount of developing to put his 'plan' into effect.   The early Corvair 
was built during the last part of that development.  Up  until that time 
'Japanese quality' was a joke and a bad one at  that.  But, at that time, a buyer 
could get that 'foreign car prestige'  for cheap because the Japanese government 
paid their manufacturers to export  products so they could sell them here at 
below build costs.  Thereby  working their way into the US market.

In years after the Corvair GM  attempted to implement some of his ideas but 
due to cultural differences they  were even then not very well accepted among 
American workers.
Ken  P




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