I was looking to the future and reflecting on the past. Right now although the US quality has improved it still lags the Japanese manufacturers, so there is more work to do, but the quality gap has closed, however, if it's the case that Asian car quality is that much more superior what are the Asian Manufacturers afraid of? This is just one example, there are other industries that are effected in exactly the same way, ie: unfair trading behaviour.
They have a huge advantage if they can export with impunity while denying the same access to the US manufacturers. Why aren't more people outraged?
I think part of the problem is the fact that the American manufacturers build for the North American market while the Asian and Europeans build for the world, and on top of that the US manufacturers have ceded large parts of the market due to lax and incompetent management, through relying on Suv's and trucks, a very complacent approach that only now is coming to fruition with massive loss of market share for the US manufacturers as both the Suv and truck markets have started to go south.
Also while relying on bulk sales to the car leasing companies look good as far a volume is concerned they represent little in profit per car, again a complacent approach that is a result and responsibility of US auto makers management, I don't think you can blame the unions, as I understand it the Japanese manufactures pay the same compensation to their non-unionized members as the unionized US car manufacturer's workers.