This was an awesome "retro" video upload. From the explanation of America's lag time in reacting to the oil embargo with inefficient cars, classic Ralph Nader, trucker hats while stopping the production line to celebrate the Ford Fairmont...WOW! To see how labor-intensive the engineering process was celebrates the ease of design today. Of course, condolences to the family of Mr. Robert Vito.
Detroit videos from the late 1960s to 80s are my fave because the people always hope that the decline has stopped and there's gonna be some great turnaround but we know how sadly wrong they were!!
If they could ONLY have seen year 2014. In addition to ALL of these things, when we have a problem and pick up the phone, we are talking to someone in another continent about our personal and financial matters
We saw something similar in the UK with British Leyland etc. The striking workers would spit hatred at those buying Toyota & Datsun cars instead of British ones, blaming them for the collapse of the British Motor Industry. But you can hardly blame people for buying well made, reliable, well specified & less expensive cars that are readily available due to those making them not spending most of their time standing around a brazier. There are many reasons why the UK & US car industries experienced problems, but you can't really blame the buying public for refusing to buy rubbish. Make a good product at a fair price and people will buy it. Attempt to bully them into paying over the odds for crap, and they will simply take their business elsewhere.
If only the USA auto makers listened to rather than shunn Edward Deming in the postwar period, he instead went to Japan to spread his wisdom which culminated in what we know today as Kaizan (the Toyota way) and J.I.T (just in time) which everyone else scrambled to learn just to try and remain competitive
19:26 That GM guy actually tried resisting airbags in the name of safety 😵 Saving a few pennies isn't worth letting people die. Way back, my brother swerved on black ice with passengers inside, wrapping his car around a pole. Fortunately, only minor injuries occurred. It was a Japanese car (Nissan Altima). If he was in one of these death traps though, he could've easily died.
He also spent billions to try and develop fully robotised factories where they famously welded doors shut and painted each other rather than the cars, to say it was a catastrophic failure for GM would be ask understatement but at least you got Saturn..
A friend told me that he was laid-off from dodge for 2 weeks.he still got 90%his pay for the 2 weeks.If he choose too go too the factory break room for 40 hrs per week he got 100% of his wages.
I've only owned American cars, however, I am tempted to buy an import the next time. My reason? The hiring system at the big three for hourly workers is a closed system and this is a fact. They may publish notices hiring 500 or so new employees but it is because they have to. The new jobs end up going to referrals by current employees. It's been like this since the 80's. Even if you do get an application in, referral or walk in you still end up on a waiting list that can last more than five years. The "Buddy System" does not bring in the best quality workers and it contributes to a spoiled workforce.
Unfortunately, I had the same experience with a Cadillac as one of the people in this documentary. Ironically, it was actually an Opel made in Germany, which GM branded as a Cadillac model. It was a beautiful car to drive on those occasions when something was not breaking down, which were rare occasions. I still buy domestic vehicles, but I now tend to stick with Chrysler and Ford brands. It is a shame because I am a car enthusiast and there are many domestic models I have admired over the years for their design and the amenities offered. I suppose I might still buy a GM if it were only a second car intended more for pleasure drives as opposed to something I have to rely on. To be fair, the domestic reliability has improved dramatically over the years and the Japanese cars have shown themselves to be flawed as well. Buick is now one of the most popular brands in China and other Asian nations are beginning to show similar demand for North American cars. Maybe in time things will come full circle and domestic cars will regain their supremacy here in America. For whatever errors and arrogance the domestic manufacturers may have been guilty of, I am still inclines to give them the first shot at selling me a car.
+Gary Taylor Opel/Vauxhall Omega (called Catera here in the USA) was a piece of shit in the UK/EU...if you did not have the money/credit to buy even a lowly Fiat/Ford....you bought UK/EU shitty GM there. Good news, the Catera name was changed to CTS and assembly transferred here years ago.........it's the same piece of shit car with 1970s Platform origins....made worse with UAW horrible labor.
Even to this day GM is still 100% clueless. They spent 1.2 billion dollars in R&D for the Chevy Volt. In the end 1.2 billion produced a lower quality, yet higher priced Prius ? it totally flopped. What's GM up to already for this year ? 67 major recalls ??? I remember in the 80's and 90's my mother was a Chevy loyalist. All her Chevys she owned were utter garbage. Pure junk in terms of reliability. Her last car was a Nissan and she bailed on US car pride purely because she wanted a car that wouldn't totally fall apart by 75k miles.
@belle mcellis If no one wants them, why are people that are buying them, actually buying them? its very hard to make a product you cant sell.... yet despite your logic, people want them
The British had also had gone to help the Japanese rebuild as well, I think it was the president of Toyota who personally sent William Morris a handwritten letter effusing how they hoped to one day build cars as well Morris Motors. The tables certainly turned there.
I mean my sister's 2012 Impala is losing water, leaking oil and the check engine light keeps coming even though I already fixed the problem. I told her to dumb it for a Honda or a Toyota
Despite their postwar economic and industrial boom, the Japanese growth has stagnated since the start of the 90s and has been that way since in a period called 'the lost decades' and is still ongoing as witnessed in their lack of innovation and investment. The lead has been taken over by South Korea with Samsung, Hyundai and LG being the new kids on the block
It is is with deep regret that I post this. A little more than twenty-five hours ago, Robert Vito, former CNN Bureau-Chief in Detroit and Rome, Italy.....Former WDIV-Channel 4 (WWJ) Detroit Invetigative Reporter Vito died Wednesday night at his son's home in Singapore after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. I have lost a very good friend and he will be missed by the world. A man whose career has spaned five decades, receiving numeous awards from the Emmy for investigative reporting to having Congressional hearings opened for his stories, Vito is one of the finest reporters this world has known. He will be greatly missed by all......Special thanks to Mr. Paul Caron......Also, notes of condolences can be left at: robertvitoreporter.webs.com/
way back in the 30's 40's 50's 60's 70's & 80's he used to be magical with all those luxury Landyachtz and muscle cars in a lot of performance they used to be having people loving to enjoy driving cars back in the good old days the beginning of the 1990s all the magical it's going straight down the toilet both GM Ford and Chrysler they're making copies from the Toyota Camry Nissan and Hyundai and now today everything is the same vehicles boring and Bland mostly sedans and crossovers oh my God I hate them I hate them so much this automotive industry is dead to me this generation sucks.
As the saying goes: people who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it. This report is just more proof the Detroit 3 have not learned their lesson.
Thanks for uploading this, very interesting. Why didn't the American manufacturers which had more efficient European models such as Ford release those models in the US when the oil crisis struck? At least as a stop gap until they'd designed something specific.
Peter Arnett, a man a seven yr old me became acquainted with during the Gulf War, as a seven year old. In 2016, there is no more Mr. Arnett and a very decimated Japanese economy. And I'm a nurse, not a mechanical engineer as I wanted to be at the time. Strange days indeed.
My parents had owned a 1998 Mercury Mystique which was always breaking down and was a nightmare to have, I learn to drive on it and in a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. But by the time I got a car which was a silver 2004 VW Jetta in therms of quality is far superior than the Mystique and I didn't treat it good. Quality is what separates European, Korean and Japanese cars from the American ones.
@@howebrad4601 the ford contour and mercury mystique were co-developed with ford of Europe's ford mondeo as a world car but the USA models was built in Kansas and Mexico
As it turned out the ‘83 & ‘84 American cars were VERY successful. From the “drawering” board to success! Did CNN and European Peter Arnett do a follow up story...I bet not.
The blind leading the blind is what I see with the UAW leadership courting the car manufacturers. If uaw is charging a premium for their labor they better be building premium quality products, which they were not. And to see a uaw leader end up on the board of directors of a manufacturer is like letting the fox into the henhouse.
The funny thing is, all of the cars they introduced to save themselves were piles of junk. LTDII (rebadged fairmont), AMC Alliance (Renault), Citation, J cars, tempo/topaz, K-cars, Caravan, etc. How many do you see on the roads anymore? None. However, there are still Hondas and Toyotas of these eras still roaming the roads. Goes to show the difference in quality!
I'm in the automotive industry. Early-mid 80's Hondas are extinct here; between rust and needlessly complicated fuel management systems (3 bbl carbs, vacuum relay boxes, etc.) they have been off the roads for years. Datsun/Nissan pickups, Toyota pickups, the occasional fwd Corolla are all I see from the 80's on a weekly basis anymore.
really... show me how many toyota's and honda's built in the early 80's are still on the road today? yes, toyota's and honda's are good cars, but you're greatly over exaggerating their build quality.
only whiny crybabies that judge quality by tidioius harmless but honest recalls that have no effect on quality, are the ones saying that American cars aren't high quality. unlike the Japanese American automakers announce recalls just to be safe while the Japanese hide defects to keep their good image for quality and get caught in lies when people find out the hard way. there is nothing wrong with American cars, some are good some aren't just like the Japanese, only difference is were more honest.
+tom brady Denial will destroy you, just as it has destroyed Detroit. Go deny somewhere else, because everyone can see right through your profiteering motives, at the expense of all the other citizens and workers of the U.S.
LOL wow... 'Thousands of hours of button pushing to create these 3D drawings of the cars... then its off to the drawing board to see if they would work." That certainly seems to be the most efficient way to design anything, computer first, paper second.
This is a fascinating documentary. 1982 had the same issues as 2016. American automakers now use a lot of foriegn parts in their vehicles. The Japanese had a huge marketing campaign about factories they built in America to assemble cars. The epicenter of the American auto industry is actually Alabama, not Detroit and the foreigners went to cheaper, non Union states. Robotics did take over but you still need ppl with electrical and computer skills so auto work today is some of the most prestigious, high paying, high skill oriented careers out there even though there are so many fewer jobs. Ford seriously got their act together, not so much with GM or Chrysler. Honda and Toyota are the top automakers in the industry today but are getting a serious push from the Koreans like Kia and Hyundai. The quality of cars have made a quantum leap as has fuel efficiency and power. Design has certainly improved from the early 80s. Detroit has never recovered its place but the car buying public has definitely benefitted immensely from a competitive marketplace
Alabama is the epicenter of auto production in the USA? Please do not spout absolute bullshit please. Draw a 100 mile circle around the city of Detroit and you will find 185000 workers employed in research, engineering, administration or manufacturing of automobiles.
My first car was a used 1982 Cavalier. I loved it, but it was a piece of crap. It was the first of four Chevys and one Pontiac between 1990 and 2009. Now I drive Toyotas. They're not super exciting, but now I get my car serviced less frequently than I get the oil changed.
The truth is the American auto industry peaked in the 60s. The reason it wasn't good before that is even from the beginning, Henry Ford being an extremely calculating business man, built planned obsolescence into his very first cars. On parts that were lasting "too long", he made them with shorter life spans so he could make extra money on replacement parts. This has plagued the American auto industry along with mafia run union demands and ever increasing and literally strangling government regulation. Add to that arrogance that refused to face the facts that customers actually know best about what they need in a product, and now you have a third world Detroit. And I don't believe for one second the auto makers couldn't respond well enough to the oil crisis. At worst, all they had to do was reverse engineer Japanese imports and away they would go. But no, they WOULDN'T. They gave us utter GARBAGE. I'd be astounded Chrysler and GM are around to this day, if not for getting their bail outs from the government.
I read that the quality that the Japanese were able to produce came down to among other things the need to pass a stringent road worthiness test in Japan. Carl Mosk Japanese Economic History. The test was called the Shaken. I wonder the truth behind what the writer says.
Until you go to prison where you have to fight for your very existence. I know that is an extreme example but desperation will make most humans do whatever it takes to survive.
The car companies need to rebuild their factories in Detroit and pay a lower wage to employees and keep the benefits basic like most American jobs, then with the cost of living at an all time low in Detroit and keep taxes low as well in time America can come back. We just have to sacrifice for a while to make it happen. Anything is possible.
Heather Black I have 20 yrs with GM . UAW proud . How about you take a pay cut and Lose your benefits . Rather than complaining about what we have .... You should organize . Improve your working conditions . Jeez
It has for sure not been good for american car manufactures that the rest of the World have had 200% higher taxes on fuel than compared to US. The US brands was 99% sold to the home market.
This video shows me a basic TRUTH....those dammed bombs that they dropped on Japan was only for DESTRUCTION.....that's humanities stupid response to things...all humans has the same basic needs, and 'DESTRUCTION" is not the answer....Contributing to "the whole" is...we don't bomb...we MAINTAIN our world...Thank you Japan for your honest contribution....Better things, and integrity of it's people is what makes a better world for ALL!
Prelude of the future and today I suppose the death of the American automobile industry as we know it this is the old the very same in 2023 we are again basically witnessing the end of the American automobile industry they will either be bought out by their competitors or they would just simply disappear into the dustpan of history How ironic that this video came out they still haven't learned....
8:10 “If you can find a better car, buy it!“ And we did! Toyota, Honda, Datsun, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, Hyundai.
Toyota and Honda are the only good ones today and even there not well made as they use to.
This was an awesome "retro" video upload. From the explanation of America's lag time in reacting to the oil embargo with inefficient cars, classic Ralph Nader, trucker hats while stopping the production line to celebrate the Ford Fairmont...WOW! To see how labor-intensive the engineering process was celebrates the ease of design today. Of course, condolences to the family of Mr. Robert Vito.
Back when CNN was actually informative
Detroit videos from the late 1960s to 80s are my fave because the people always hope that the decline has stopped and there's gonna be some great turnaround but we know how sadly wrong they were!!
Lol they hiding the tempo like it's something special. When I drove it in highschool I tried to hide to not be seen in it. 😂😂
If they could ONLY have seen year 2014. In addition to ALL of these things, when we have a problem and pick up the phone, we are talking to someone in another continent about our personal and financial matters
Thanks for uploading. - Like travelling in time!
And here we are, 2022, and it looks as if not much has changed. Big 3, get it together!
We saw something similar in the UK with British Leyland etc. The striking workers would spit hatred at those buying Toyota & Datsun cars instead of British ones, blaming them for the collapse of the British Motor Industry. But you can hardly blame people for buying well made, reliable, well specified & less expensive cars that are readily available due to those making them not spending most of their time standing around a brazier. There are many reasons why the UK & US car industries experienced problems, but you can't really blame the buying public for refusing to buy rubbish. Make a good product at a fair price and people will buy it. Attempt to bully them into paying over the odds for crap, and they will simply take their business elsewhere.
If only the USA auto makers listened to rather than shunn Edward Deming in the postwar period, he instead went to Japan to spread his wisdom which culminated in what we know today as Kaizan (the Toyota way) and J.I.T (just in time) which everyone else scrambled to learn just to try and remain competitive
19:26 That GM guy actually tried resisting airbags in the name of safety 😵 Saving a few pennies isn't worth letting people die.
Way back, my brother swerved on black ice with passengers inside, wrapping his car around a pole. Fortunately, only minor injuries occurred. It was a Japanese car (Nissan Altima). If he was in one of these death traps though, he could've easily died.
He also spent billions to try and develop fully robotised factories where they famously welded doors shut and painted each other rather than the cars, to say it was a catastrophic failure for GM would be ask understatement but at least you got Saturn..
Ashley Sutherland horseplay happened no only with humans but with robots. Too funny 😂
Really interesting coverage! Detroit's outlook looked promising here... man if these people could see it now:(
bigggmustang73 there still alive well some
A friend told me that he was laid-off from dodge for 2 weeks.he still got 90%his pay for the 2 weeks.If he choose too go too the factory break room for 40 hrs per week he got 100% of his wages.
vern wallen goes to show you UAW employees are even lazier and more pampered than federal government employees
I've only owned American cars, however, I am tempted to buy an import the next time. My reason? The hiring system at the big three for hourly workers is a closed system and this is a fact. They may publish notices hiring 500 or so new employees but it is because they have to. The new jobs end up going to referrals by current employees. It's been like this since the 80's. Even if you do get an application in, referral or walk in you still end up on a waiting list that can last more than five years.
The "Buddy System" does not bring in the best quality workers and it contributes to a spoiled workforce.
+ELECTRICCLOCK Why do you continue to bother? Self-defeating behavior, much?
Bother what? you must be gay.
RADIUM CLOCK and failure of the US auto industry. Union jobs are bad for that
I've been driving Honda since 1985. Current ride is a 2016 Honda Accord. My next car will be the Honda Insight or the Honda Accord Hybrid.
Even Honda and Toyota Quality isn't what it use to to be the 1980s Hondas and Toyota's were better bulid then today.
But how will I know
Unfortunately, I had the same experience with a Cadillac as one of the people in this documentary. Ironically, it was actually an Opel made in Germany, which GM branded as a Cadillac model. It was a beautiful car to drive on those occasions when something was not breaking down, which were rare occasions. I still buy domestic vehicles, but I now tend to stick with Chrysler and Ford brands. It is a shame because I am a car enthusiast and there are many domestic models I have admired over the years for their design and the amenities offered. I suppose I might still buy a GM if it were only a second car intended more for pleasure drives as opposed to something I have to rely on. To be fair, the domestic reliability has improved dramatically over the years and the Japanese cars have shown themselves to be flawed as well. Buick is now one of the most popular brands in China and other Asian nations are beginning to show similar demand for North American cars. Maybe in time things will come full circle and domestic cars will regain their supremacy here in America. For whatever errors and arrogance the domestic manufacturers may have been guilty of, I am still inclines to give them the first shot at selling me a car.
+Gary Taylor Opel/Vauxhall Omega (called Catera here in the USA) was a piece of shit in the UK/EU...if you did not have the money/credit to buy even a lowly Fiat/Ford....you bought UK/EU shitty GM there.
Good news, the Catera name was changed to CTS and assembly transferred here years ago.........it's the same piece of shit car with 1970s Platform origins....made worse with UAW horrible labor.
Ford is still pretty good actually, the reason is because the family is still tied to it and has a reputation to protect.
D McNamara
Are you sure the CTS was derived from the Catera?
Even to this day GM is still 100% clueless.
They spent 1.2 billion dollars in R&D for the Chevy Volt. In the end 1.2 billion produced a lower quality, yet higher priced Prius ? it totally flopped. What's GM up to already for this year ? 67 major recalls ???
I remember in the 80's and 90's my mother was a Chevy loyalist. All her Chevys she owned were utter garbage. Pure junk in terms of reliability. Her last car was a Nissan and she bailed on US car pride purely because she wanted a car that wouldn't totally fall apart by 75k miles.
With GM getting rid of the Cruze, buyers who want a small car, will turn to the imports, since they still know what they want.
And now they have Mary Barra. 😂🤣😂
@belle mcellis If no one wants them, why are people that are buying them, actually buying them? its very hard to make a product you cant sell.... yet despite your logic, people want them
The British had also had gone to help the Japanese rebuild as well, I think it was the president of Toyota who personally sent William Morris a handwritten letter effusing how they hoped to one day build cars as well Morris Motors. The tables certainly turned there.
11:07 1997 Mark VIII
I mean my sister's 2012 Impala is losing water, leaking oil and the check engine light keeps coming even though I already fixed the problem. I told her to dumb it for a Honda or a Toyota
Despite their postwar economic and industrial boom, the Japanese growth has stagnated since the start of the 90s and has been that way since in a period called 'the lost decades' and is still ongoing as witnessed in their lack of innovation and investment. The lead has been taken over by South Korea with Samsung, Hyundai and LG being the new kids on the block
It is is with deep regret that I post this. A little more than twenty-five hours ago, Robert Vito, former CNN Bureau-Chief in Detroit and Rome, Italy.....Former WDIV-Channel 4 (WWJ) Detroit Invetigative Reporter Vito died Wednesday night at his son's home in Singapore after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. I have lost a very good friend and he will be missed by the world. A man whose career has spaned five decades, receiving numeous awards from the Emmy for investigative reporting to having Congressional hearings opened for his stories, Vito is one of the finest reporters this world has known. He will be greatly missed by all......Special thanks to Mr. Paul Caron......Also, notes of condolences can be left at: robertvitoreporter.webs.com/
way back in the 30's 40's 50's 60's 70's & 80's he used to be magical with all those luxury Landyachtz and muscle cars in a lot of performance they used to be having people loving to enjoy driving cars back in the good old days the beginning of the 1990s all the magical it's going straight down the toilet both GM Ford and Chrysler they're making copies from the Toyota Camry Nissan and Hyundai and now today everything is the same vehicles boring and Bland mostly sedans and crossovers oh my God I hate them I hate them so much this automotive industry is dead to me this generation sucks.
Exactly mate
I don't know what you're talking about. I have a 2017 Kia and I love it.
As the saying goes: people who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it.
This report is just more proof the Detroit 3 have not learned their lesson.
1982! They year i was BORN baby! Car industry dies and I come to life! " poor world" :)
we are born, we die and we are reborn.(laughs).
Thanks for uploading this, very interesting. Why didn't the American manufacturers which had more efficient European models such as Ford release those models in the US when the oil crisis struck? At least as a stop gap until they'd designed something specific.
Time keeps slipping slipping into the future
Peter Arnett, a man a seven yr old me became acquainted with during the Gulf War, as a seven year old. In 2016, there is no more Mr. Arnett and a very decimated Japanese economy. And I'm a nurse, not a mechanical engineer as I wanted to be at the time. Strange days indeed.
My parents had owned a 1998 Mercury Mystique which was always breaking down and was a nightmare to have, I learn to drive on it and in a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. But by the time I got a car which was a silver 2004 VW Jetta in therms of quality is far superior than the Mystique and I didn't treat it good.
Quality is what separates European, Korean and Japanese cars from the American ones.
Oscar and
Oscar , I hate to tell you but the Mystique was a European ford brought over here so your comment doesn’t make sense
@@howebrad4601 the ford contour and mercury mystique were co-developed with ford of Europe's ford mondeo as a world car but the USA models was built in Kansas and Mexico
Ashley Sutherland I know. The car was built here but it was primarily a European design
@@howebrad4601 "The car was built here but it was primarily a European design" It was the fact it was built here which made it suck
As it turned out the ‘83 & ‘84 American cars were VERY successful. From the “drawering” board to success! Did CNN and European Peter Arnett do a follow up story...I bet not.
Relearning inventory man at 30 minutes I am getting reschooled in cost of inventory. Man oh man.
The blind leading the blind is what I see with the UAW leadership courting the car manufacturers. If uaw is charging a premium for their labor they better be building premium quality products, which they were not. And to see a uaw leader end up on the board of directors of a manufacturer is like letting the fox into the henhouse.
I love (the late) Henry Ford II's quote, 'cause it was true.
He loved his big cars (or boats I call it).
Was that a Buick-gmc-Honda dealership at the beginning? Surprised gm would allow that
12:56 what’s really ironic is that Ford plant is now the site of the Porsche headquarters
30:13 $19/hour in 1982 equates to $57.88 today. Holy cow. Were UAW workers considered wealthy? That’s over $100k/year in 2022 dollars.
Detroit is held together now with sports teams, a far cry from a chicken in every pot.
11:02 is that white car above his head BMW 7 series?
Edward Deming, the big three laughed at him and the Japanese took his advice.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
The funny thing is, all of the cars they introduced to save themselves were piles of junk. LTDII (rebadged fairmont), AMC Alliance (Renault), Citation, J cars, tempo/topaz, K-cars, Caravan, etc. How many do you see on the roads anymore? None. However, there are still Hondas and Toyotas of these eras still roaming the roads. Goes to show the difference in quality!
+Milford Civic Every day I see Hondas and Toyota's from the 80's still on the road.
I'm in the automotive industry. Early-mid 80's Hondas are extinct here; between rust and needlessly complicated fuel management systems (3 bbl carbs, vacuum relay boxes, etc.) they have been off the roads for years. Datsun/Nissan pickups, Toyota pickups, the occasional fwd Corolla are all I see from the 80's on a weekly basis anymore.
Baloney
really... show me how many toyota's and honda's built in the early 80's are still on the road today? yes, toyota's and honda's are good cars, but you're greatly over exaggerating their build quality.
Depends where you live..... Florida yeah, anywhere road salt is used, no car by any brand lasts long.....
only whiny crybabies that judge quality by tidioius harmless but honest recalls that have no effect on quality, are the ones saying that American cars aren't high quality. unlike the Japanese American automakers announce recalls just to be safe while the Japanese hide defects to keep their good image for quality and get caught in lies when people find out the hard way. there is nothing wrong with American cars, some are good some aren't just like the Japanese, only difference is were more honest.
+tom brady Denial will destroy you, just as it has destroyed Detroit. Go deny somewhere else, because everyone can see right through your profiteering motives, at the expense of all the other citizens and workers of the U.S.
LOL wow... 'Thousands of hours of button pushing to create these 3D drawings of the cars... then its off to the drawing board to see if they would work." That certainly seems to be the most efficient way to design anything, computer first, paper second.
Seems to negate the whole purpose of auto CAD
Gas “shot up to over one dollar!” Ahh, it was a simpler time. Lmao If only they knew...
Keep in mind minimum wage was only $3.35 in 82
35:49
Body language of line worker vs tone of the narrative at that point
This is a fascinating documentary. 1982 had the same issues as 2016. American automakers now use a lot of foriegn parts in their vehicles. The Japanese had a huge marketing campaign about factories they built in America to assemble cars. The epicenter of the American auto industry is actually Alabama, not Detroit and the foreigners went to cheaper, non Union states. Robotics did take over but you still need ppl with electrical and computer skills so auto work today is some of the most prestigious, high paying, high skill oriented careers out there even though there are so many fewer jobs. Ford seriously got their act together, not so much with GM or Chrysler. Honda and Toyota are the top automakers in the industry today but are getting a serious push from the Koreans like Kia and Hyundai. The quality of cars have made a quantum leap as has fuel efficiency and power. Design has certainly improved from the early 80s. Detroit has never recovered its place but the car buying public has definitely benefitted immensely from a competitive marketplace
Alabama is the epicenter of auto production in the USA? Please do not spout absolute bullshit please. Draw a 100 mile circle around the city of Detroit and you will find 185000 workers employed in research, engineering, administration or manufacturing of automobiles.
My first car was a used 1982 Cavalier. I loved it, but it was a piece of crap. It was the first of four Chevys and one Pontiac between 1990 and 2009. Now I drive Toyotas. They're not super exciting, but now I get my car serviced less frequently than I get the oil changed.
The truth is the American auto industry peaked in the 60s. The reason it wasn't good before that is even from the beginning, Henry Ford being an extremely calculating business man, built planned obsolescence into his very first cars. On parts that were lasting "too long", he made them with shorter life spans so he could make extra money on replacement parts.
This has plagued the American auto industry along with mafia run union demands and ever increasing and literally strangling government regulation. Add to that arrogance that refused to face the facts that customers actually know best about what they need in a product, and now you have a third world Detroit.
And I don't believe for one second the auto makers couldn't respond well enough to the oil crisis. At worst, all they had to do was reverse engineer Japanese imports and away they would go. But no, they WOULDN'T. They gave us utter GARBAGE.
I'd be astounded Chrysler and GM are around to this day, if not for getting their bail outs from the government.
And now 12 year olds can design cars. Just look at the shitty ones on the roads today.
SS which ones? I have a 2017 Kia and love it
I read that the quality that the Japanese were able to produce came down to among other things the need to pass a stringent road worthiness test in Japan. Carl Mosk Japanese Economic History. The test was called the Shaken. I wonder the truth behind what the writer says.
Hey America, notice those first model t were right hand drive.
I bet, to this day, some will still not buy North American vehicles.
I live in ky my camary is built 5 min from my home I've worked there for 15 yrs more American parts than any other car period!
michael S most people don't even know most us cars are forgin made and imports us made
I live 4 miles from the GM plant I work at and have for the last 20 yrs . Our vehicles have the highest U.S. Content . Traverse and enclave .
The Toyota's and Honda's made In Japan are better quality.
Are you freaken serious?? Fights back with Chevettes and K-Cars??
The real problem then & now is over paid lazy American auto workers. They feel owed, earn it!
I agree with you, but these cars were engineered badly. Assembly errors by hourly workers were nothing compared to early failures of components.
What's with that Australian accent in the beginning?
He's an New Zealander not Australian lol
One car. Ford Taurus
Never keep the words 'Can't beat them but join them' no way!!!!
Until you go to prison where you have to fight for your very existence. I know that is an extreme example but desperation will make most humans do whatever it takes to survive.
19:50 old windbag denounces airbags
Funky bumper music.
12:15 doesn't that look like a toyato prius...
The car companies need to rebuild their factories in Detroit and pay a lower wage to employees and keep the benefits basic like most American jobs, then with the cost of living at an all time low in Detroit and keep taxes low as well in time America can come back. We just have to sacrifice for a while to make it happen. Anything is possible.
Heather Black I have 20 yrs with GM . UAW proud . How about you take a pay cut and Lose your benefits . Rather than complaining about what we have .... You should organize . Improve your working conditions . Jeez
Unions - More time do do less work and better pay for NOT getting it done!
good thing Mercedes got the airbag and ABS running...
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Cadillac did actually, check your history.
@@Samuelfish2k fake news
Detroit is STILL culturally affected by lack of travel and idea aversion.
It has for sure not been good for american car manufactures that the rest of the World have had 200% higher taxes on fuel than compared to US.
The US brands was 99% sold to the home market.
Roger Smith ruined GM.
OMG! I had a white Ford Tempo, and it was by far the WORST car I've ever had, Ford should be embarrassed!!
Tesla is now making the American car great again.
markleyg made in China 😂
Detroit, the city that collapsed so fast that it is only beaten to first place by Pompeii.
Shawn Berry, It's called bad engineering
Pacers and Pintos too??
Read JD Vances book and you will know why
rip bob
This video shows me a basic TRUTH....those dammed bombs that they dropped on Japan was only for DESTRUCTION.....that's humanities stupid response to things...all humans has the same basic needs, and 'DESTRUCTION" is not the answer....Contributing to "the whole" is...we don't bomb...we MAINTAIN our world...Thank you Japan for your honest contribution....Better things, and integrity of it's people is what makes a better world for ALL!
The guy at the thirty-five minute mark seems to be like a windbag.
Dr. Deming has said eighty-five percent of fault is management.
Prelude of the future and today I suppose the death of the American automobile industry as we know it this is the old the very same in 2023 we are again basically witnessing the end of the American automobile industry they will either be bought out by their competitors or they would just simply disappear into the dustpan of history
How ironic that this video came out they still haven't learned....
It's amazing how the US auto industry has subsequently done a complete turn around and CNN is in the toilet! Talk about your irony!!🤣🤣
That's what happened if you don't innovate. Where is gm electric pickup truck? Do we have to wait for Tesla to build one?
Michael Heider I have a 1999 suburban
the union killed it
Almost 40 years later American cars STILL SUCKS!!!! Except Trucks
WOW CNN used to be a news network. They've failed horribly just like the American auto industry
Ford's 1983 challenge to Japanese dominance...introducing the Tempo/Topaz! ... VOMIT. What a pathetic vehicle. Ugly as sin, poop on wheels.
Conservatards in upper management ruined the quality.