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quote:Originally posted by Irlpguy
It is pretty difficult to compare the Auto manufacturing industry to the RV industry, no matter where the auto is being built. There have been some major recalls over the past years on Japanese cars as there have been on US made vehicles. Remember Toyota a few years back.
You all might recollect many years ago before we started bringing vehicles in from Japan by the boatload the majority of the "stuff" being imported was considered Japanese junk. That certainly changed and they have proven to produce higher quality products in almost every area than that being produced in North America.
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Your first statement conflicts with the second. In the first one you take a shot at Japanese quality, and in the second you laud how far they have come. The truth is in between the two.
If you had a manufacturing background, you would understand what Rich and I were talking about. Here's some history for you: After WWII, the US helped Japan both economically and educationally to change Japan's culture from feudalism and farming to manufacturing. You are certainly correct about the early products from Japan being labeled as junk, and Japan knew it. To overcome that stigma, they had an American named Dr. Deming come to their country and teach them how to build quality products. That impacted all of Japanese products, from electronics to automobiles. All manufacturing, no matter what the product, learned from the Deming philosophy.
Soon, Japanese imports, especially electronics (Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba) became the top names. Cars quickly followed. In the electronics field, US manufacturers either fled to Japan (and later Korea, then China) or went under. The US autos, too entrenched to move, had to either change or die. That's when the "Big 3" began to take the term 'quality' seriously, and it's the only thing that saved them. If you don't think the same thing would happen to the RV industry, should a country like Japan (or South Korea, who adopted the same plan as Japan) became involved in the manufacturing of RV's, you either fail to understand economics or are living in the 60's.
So the jump from cars to RV's is NOT far fetched and instead makes perfect sense.