Quote Originally Posted by Michael Moscicki View Post

3. Corporate greed. Yes corporations are in the money making business. If they don't make money, they go out of business. GM and Ford outsource their manufacturing jobs to Mexico, Turkey, etc. Honda and Toyota outsource their manufacturing jobs to the US(if you're in Japan, you'll still buy a Japanese made Honda or Toyota, so no harm there). Who makes more money? Honda and Toyota. But wait wages and taxes are higher in the US than in Mexico or Turkey. Plain and simple. People will buy the better car, and that one happens to a US made Honda or Toyota. Does that make sense? Doesn't to me.


Solution: Stop outsourcing manufacturing to Mexico and build a quality car in the US. See how many more people will buy the car. In turn you will make more money and be profitable. Remember that it's cheaper for the consumer to buy the $35,000 US made car and have it last for 15 years than to buy the $15,000 Mexican made car and have to replace it in 5 years.
I'll argue that there is NO real difference in quality among GM, Ford, Toyota, and Honda. If you believe that reviewers don't let their own biases skew their results and opinions...

The difference in cost, as far as Toyota making cars here, and GM outsourcing, has to do purely with the difference in labor and benefit costs, and costs to pay its massive retirement obligations. Toyota, for one, being very new to the US manufacturing scene has much lower costs in these areas. Simply put, they don't have near the baggage that Ford, GM, and other long time (domestic) auto makers have.