The fall of Detroit is a tragedy.
Detroit was once a booming metropolis of culture, business, and technology. There was momentum than many predicted would propel Detroit beyond NYC as the premier American City.
But it was all lost.
Today their buildings and factories and infrastructure rusts and crumbles away. Their crime, poverty, and depression is more infamous than their history is famous. Rats, both literal and metophorical bicker over the scraps.
Detroit is the American Alexandria
Lots of mistakes made, including overseas manufacturing and horrible city management. But the US car manufacturers also chose a flawed business model based on advertising vs engineering. Sad. US could have had the best engineered vehicles in the world, but they let Germany and Japan do it.
Sauce: we had a Jeep Cherokee and wanted to buy a new one, was still US made; but the reliability was awful. The steering was loosey goosey. Had to buy a much cheaper used BMW SUV instead. Tight responsive steering and handling, excellent reliability, drove it to about 300K miles then got another used one.
The fall of Detroit is a tragedy. Detroit was once a booming metropolis of culture, business, and technology. There was momentum than many predicted would propel Detroit beyond NYC as the premier American City. But it was all lost. Today their buildings and factories and infrastructure rusts and crumbles away. Their crime, poverty, and depression is more infamous than their history is famous. Rats, both literal and metophorical bicker over the scraps. Detroit is the American Alexandria
Lots of mistakes made, including overseas manufacturing and horrible city management. But the US car manufacturers also chose a flawed business model based on advertising vs engineering. Sad. US could have had the best engineered vehicles in the world, but they let Germany and Japan do it.
Sauce: we had a Jeep Cherokee and wanted to buy a new one, was still US made; but the reliability was awful. The steering was loosey goosey. Had to buy a much cheaper used BMW SUV instead. Tight responsive steering and handling, excellent reliability, drove it to about 300K miles then got another used one.