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Oh please - all those wires stung in the air over the last 30-40 years are all the fault of the war in Iraq - yeah, right
Cars were shoddy in the 70s because the big 3 got lazy, and then had a bunch of "interesting" laws pushed on them - the 1st being polution controls, and then the 1973 gas crisis leading to the CAFE laws (which directly lead to the rise of the SUV, but lets not go THERE)
If your company has built a plant figuring on a 30 year life span (which the big 3 used to do) if costs a fortune to re-tool to make something else. In the mean time, if the guys you compete aginst made the right guess (small engines) they have a huge advantage
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