re: Stellantis just fired hundreds of engineers

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mallardhank
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2006
1269 posts

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My dad retired from Ford. I never owned one that was trouble free. Made the move to Honda, infinity and Tundra forty years ago and never looked back.

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I love how random issues smoke out longtime lurkers here.

My old man worked in aerospace (not for Chrysler), he had enough with American automakers by the mid 1970s.

Looking back, it was an easy technical decision as the engineering and build quality of the Big 3 was anbsol abysmal then*. There was a social component to it, he wasn’t a Mercedes or Volvo kind of guy so it was Japanese cars and they were tiny and austere. But he made the move and never owned anything but Nipponese cars until he died.

*Admittedly some 1970s American cars are eye candy. They were not reliable as daily drivers and they aged poorly. The basic new car warranty was 12 months/12,000 miles for a reason.