Toyota VS Ford Options

[tomazws]

A Japanese company ( Toyota ) and an American company (Ford) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River . Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.

On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.

The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action.

Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing.

Feeling a deeper study was in order, American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion.

They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.

Not sure of how to utilize that information, but wanting to prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering superintendents, and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager.

They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the ”Rowing Team Quality First Program” with meetings, dinners, and free pens for the rower. There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes, and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices and bonuses.

The next year the Japanese won by two miles.

Humiliated, the American management laid off the rower for poor performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and the next year's racing team was out-sourced to India .

Sadly, The End.

Here's something else to think about: Ford has spent the last thirty years trying to move all of its factories out of the US , claiming they can't make money paying American wages.

TOYOTA has spent the last thirty years building more than a dozen plants inside the US. The last quarter's results for 2007:

TOYOTA makes 4 billion in profits while Ford racked up 9 billion in losses.

Senior managers at Ford are still scratching their heads.

IF THIS WEREN'T SO TRUE, IT MIGHT BE FUNNY.

This post has been edited by tomazws: Nov 13, 2008 - 12:51 PM

[Taskbot]

Because its true, it is funny.

Like with this in mind, have you ever met those guys that are hard on for domestics?

My friend fails to acknowledge Toyota and Honda as a "domestic" even though they are made in Ontario (Corolla in Cambridge and Civic in Alliston), whereas the cars he drives, "domestics" were all made outside of Canada AND America.

Of course I'm Canadian and this idea of Domestic and Import is an American idea that seemed to seep over the border. Canada doesn't make Canadian cars.

[Random_Stranger]

Because its true, it is funny.

Like with this in mind, have you ever met those guys that are hard on for domestics?

My friend fails to acknowledge Toyota and Honda as a "domestic" even though they are made in Ontario (Corolla in Cambridge and Civic in Alliston), whereas the cars he drives, "domestics" were all made outside of Canada AND America.

Of course I'm Canadian and this idea of Domestic and Import is an American idea that seemed to seep over the border. Canada doesn't make Canadian cars.

Heck yeah! I live in a town that is split between the new hot rods of today (imports) vs old school all American boys (domestics obviously).

My lil brother is contemplating getting a 91 MR2 Turbo. Now he goes to school with a specific social and racial group of people in this town that make the stereotype, and they dog imports. They asked him about what cars he is in, he said Tuners and they were like "Nah! Ford Trucks all the way!" LOL. My auto shop teacher grew up with Domestics, and he dogs Ford because of their reliability. He sees me sport Toyota all day (Down to even a Toyota Backpack! Yes, I am not lying. If they made Toyota undies, I would by them too!) and always speaks highly of them.


Hey, I know this is off topic (but we are in the off topic thread LOL) what is up with the "JDM" (LOL, yes, I realize Toyota sold a few overseas, but that doesn't change jack $#!T) Caveliers and those Cobalts with JDM Driver badges on them? I seen one today and I was like "WTF?! Foo, stick with your own stuff. GO put a Gitter done sticker on that SOB! Or an American flag!".

What is really the deal with these wanna be JDM American cars?! ARGH! That annoys me. That and people trying to race me or pretend they want to when cars are in front of both of us. Because they don't know my car is slow, and on an open road, unless they know they are in the 400's (HP), they slow down when I drive by and leave me alone when I get ahead (I am against street racing anyways, but we are talking going the speed limit here).