03-09-2015, 12:59 PM
(03-09-2015, 12:52 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Triumph is not owned by BMW but by teal estate mogul John BLoor and modern Bonnies for at least the last couple of years or so have not been built in Britain, but rather in Thailand.
Oh, I know that. I was referring to how I'd duck MINI, even though BMW owns it. Or Triumph, even though it's not the Triumph of British Leyland anymore.
The attitudes of the workers; the social attitudes in the community in which the work is done...all color the type of quality that comes out. Which is one reason the quality of Detroit cars fell so greatly in the 1970s; and why the Japanese, heady with success in those days, became an armed industrial camp with seemingly-inhuman quality.
