Re: domino

> Waiv>

> >> > > >>> Waiv> > >>>> i find it amazing how bmw, honda and toyota can manufacture here, > >>>> using american-made components, and do so profitably, yet our > >>>> domestic dinosaurs say they can't. > > >>> BMW, et-al, don't have the legacy union retirement and health benefit= s > >>> to pay, which cost those who do something like $2,500 per vehicle > >>> built. > > >> actually, they do. =A0you're just repeating the smoke screen bullshit, > >> red herring swallowed hook line and sinker propaganda from detroit and > >> not looking at the wider picture. > > >> vw, bmw, mercedes, porsche all have much higher employee costs > >> [including unions and retirees], higher commodity costs, and higher > >> capital overheads than here in the usa. > > > I should have been more clear. =A0I was referring to those foreign > > manufacturers who have auto plants here in the USA. > > how does their presence explain how u.s. auto manufacturers can make a > profit manufacturing in the higher cost environment of europe, but not > here??? =A0afterall, it's not like they haven't been happily shipping u.s= . > jobs to even lower-cost locations like china and mexico for the last > decade. =A0[like we /really/ want to condone and bail-out /that/ kind of > behavior...]

Cars sell for more in Europe. The Ford Focus starts at 12.5 pounds in England -- that's $25000! The Fiesta starts at $16000. That might make it a LITTLE easier to make a profit.

If entries from lower-cost labor markets take hold in Europe... who knows how things will change?

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Matthew Fedder
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