Foreign Carmakers Move Production To US - But Can The American Autoworker Maintain The Quality?

I doubt so..at least not high on drugs or drunk...Sadly not all but is the perception that we get from the press..which most of the times is half true. ..

Personally, if the auto factory has a UAW union in it, I am NOT buying their product. I don't need to support UAW workers who smoke pot and drink beer on their LUNCH BREAK; get fired; only to be reinstated back with their companies. What a dang sham. If it was you or me, we would have been shown the door many times over. Chrysler's pot smoking and beer drinking UAW workers will never earn my respect or business.

What kind of stupid headline is this? Toyota and Honda has been assembling cars in the U.S. for over a decade now and these cars run absolutely fine. The Toyota Sienna minivan has been built in the USA since 1998, the Accord since 1982, and the Camry since 1988. These cars easily among the most reliable in their class, PERIOD.

Looks like GM is going to need another vote-buying bailout. Since its now cheaper to build cards in the US than Japan, the Japs can price their cars more competitively and still make money as opposed to selling at a loss like GM and the Koreans.

Still wouldn't touch Honda for a while after those idiots voted President kick-the-can-down-the-road in for a second term to finish the U.S. off.

It's been cheaper to build in the U.S. since 1982, when Honda started manufacturing Accords in the U.S., with Toyota following suit in 1988.

In 1982, the Yen was near the same levels as they are now against the USD. When the Yen was weak, it was perfectly fine to build cars in Japan to export to the US (much like it is with a good number of the Korean cars).

Honda is already doing it but when Toyota brings more Lexus car production here, you know the Yen is too over valued and American labour has become the new "sweat shop" so to speak.

Something to do with tariffs in 1982 as well.

Probably mostly illegal Mexicans will be working in them anyway as Americans will deem themselves above working these jobs where they can't earn 6 figures like those moron port workers.

ITS NOT ABOUT THE PERSON AT THE FACTORY ITS ABOUT THE AUTOMAKERS BUILD PROCESS THAT MAKES THE QUALITY.

Are you crazy, of course it's about the person in the factory. Robotics or the manual labor needed are only as good as the trained or qualified person doing that job. Hey heart doctor, it's not about how good you were in your medical class, or how much training you received while doing your medical internship, it's only about how well the hospital does it procedures in checking a patient in - not the actual skill of the doctor who will be performing the surgery.

This statement of "It's NOT about person at the factory it's about the automakers build process......" is such an IDIOT statement. My idiot brother worked for Ford Motor Company in Sterling Heights, Michigan plant for almost 33 years. Those goofballs put together some crappy stuff (why I never bought a UAW built product). All they care about is fatting up their own wallets (with benefits, bonuses, cost of living allowances (COLA), etc.

It surely does make a difference WHO you have building your cars. Let's see: pot smokers and beer drinkers coming back from lunch, or someone dedicated to building a quality product AND concerned for the safety of their fellow auto worker, while at work (and when they return from lunch).

Glad to hear that, so in the future not so far we going to have more jobs , this is great......

With lazy boobs like obama in power, how can America fail?