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Originally posted by phredgreen
i realze that in the beginning it was simply a move to bring cred to their names,
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Are you serious? The BMWs and MBs made in America are not referred very favourably to
BMW and MB moved their production to the USA because it was relatively low labour cost overthere (much lower than in Germany) and very close to the main market. And also the USA customers don't care as much about the quality as the European customers do.
And if you knew the effects of the quota imposed on the Japanese car manufacturers in the early/mid 1980s you would choose to have those blue collar workers fired because it was terrible for the economy. I don't have the report here, but i'll ask tuesday at school for the effects. But in short it turned out that that an average blue collar worker costs $200.000,- per year to the state/public because of the quota. If he would have been fired it would have been in the order of $20.000,-