Why Did The American Car Industry Fail?
Why Did The American Car Industry Fail?
The USA is used to produce worlds best cars back in ’50s and ’60s. Now, if you look at the American car companies, not only they don’t have any significant portion of the foreign market, they can’t even dominate in their domestic market. So why do American car companies are failing so miserably?
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I gave up on the big 3 domestic brands years ago. I strictly stick with Japanese brands, preferably those still made in Japan.
"Always aiming for the short-term profit" sums things up in one sentence for the American auto industry, until the day it’ll be just GONE.
Great review thanks
I would have pitched a fit at this but its just plain true. I had always owned and driven American cars and then in Germany I rented a German Ford Mondeo station wagon and it drove like it was glued to the road. It made the handling of my Corvette look like a snot ball. It was not a powerful model but the comfort and handling of the German designed and produced Ford was unbelievable.
Ford are huge in the UK for decades although European and British designs.
In short, American cars are hot garbage especially Chevy, GM and Chrysler products.
Quality means different things to different people. To some, Quality means a consistently served "Happy Meal". To me, Quality is something to pursue with a Zen mindset.
They Dont Follow the Same Principles as the Japanese do they Follow the Method Of Kaizen Meaning Trying to Make it More Perfect and Make Sure that There’s Nothing Wrong With Any Of the Parts in a Moving car etc…
WHAT IS A REMOTE CAR?I AM MADE BY A PENNY.
There have been plenty of recalls and issues with japanese cars.
This video is quite good but there are a few places where it doesn’t get things quite right, particularly the point that American trucks wouldn’t be successful in the US if they weren’t protected. I don’t think that’s the case because foreign trucks don’t compete too well with American trucks. The Tundra tries and it does well, but the F-150 still beats it in terms of sales, also foreign trucks and SUVs are way behind technologically right now, America has electric trucks for sale right now with several new EVs coming too, the foreign competition is lagging.
Secondly I prefer American and Japanese brands to European brands, specially Fords are cheap to fix and maintain, and Japanese cars just don’t break down as often as European cars generally. German cars are solidly built and don’t suffer from rust problems but their quality control isn’t as good as their Japanese counterparts and they fail more often, and when they do they are complex machines with expensive parts.
I will never buy unreliable american car brands. Japanese car brands rule always in reliability.
It the emissions components in the cars most of the old classic cars can start up after 40 or 50 years plus there easy to work on and technically emissions are pointless because pollution is made of carbo dioxide that’s what plants need to live and we breath it out that’s why there is no smog in the county area because there’s tons of plants unlike new york
Outside of Tesla and the ocasional Ford I don’t see many American cars on the road and I only think Tesla is doing well in the EV space because of the first mover advantage they’ve shared with Nissan and Renault. Be interesting to see how/if they change things up as competition has been heating up the past few years.
hi i’m from the future now we all are fighting each other for cheap gas sipping cars and trying to sell our trucks and suvs cause gas prices went up a ton lol. Honestly don’t understand people buying a ton of big suvs then complain there bad on gas.
Welp, this aged well..
Ford isn’t bad if you get a manual transmission. They can’t create transmissions for the life of them.
Thank you.
you should watch the Scotty Kilmer and Ed car reviews for your honest youtube channel. American car companies general motors and ford produce inferior products to the Asian and European. Do not waste your money especially if the automobiles are used they have many recalls and quality control issues for a significantly higher price, Detroit has not changed. That is one of the reasons ford and general motors are retreating from the global markets in shame and disappointment.
I purchased a LEXUS rx350 2010 instead of a Lincoln 2012 MKC because of the great reasons (reliability, luxury, quality)
Because they’re designed, engineered, assembled by Americans, for Americans.
The American bar is set very low.
Proof? Americans once elected a president trump, the American bar is set very low
The advent of EV’s and BEV’s will be the death of the USA Legacy car manufacturers and the dealership gouging with absurd mark-ups over MRSP will hasten it along.
I’m from Europe. The German cars are started to go this way as well. They are not so reliable like there were I the 90’s. They build their brand that time until year 2000. Maybe the cars are more complicated.
Easy. Americans can’t build a decent 4 cyl car and build quality sucks anyway. Didn’t even have to watch video.
No wonder why Manchester United is performing so bad #Glazerout
Yes do the tesla video
video created by EUROHOMO
This video is bang on. Profit over quality above all else; Performance based and rewarded on cost cutting on a quarterly basis; High level executives are all salesmen; we’ll tell the buyer what he/she wants, not the other way around; rely on government bailouts and tariffs to compete with foreign automakers. This is the domestic auto industry way and has been for decades. Been there, done that with Ford, GM, Saturn and GMC. Never again. My Honda’s and Toyota’s have been dead reliable and a pleasure to drive and own. Bye-bye domestic – see you in the receivership notices when the government stops bailing you out (if that ever happens).
We always bought GM, but the quality got worse and worse. They abandoned us long before we abandoned them…
i respect ford, still in my country ford brand associated with expensive, unreliable and how hilux trucks dominate our everyday activity life…
Oh anyway did you hear "the great ford war…????" nahhh…. only "GREAT TOYOTA WAR…"
5:18 I’m sorry, could you repeat that?😂
I have hired many American workers and contractors. Most of them are lazy, they just want to get paid and leave. Part of American cars is American laziness.
American focus on the quantity rather than quality and they should
Kinda misleading. A lot of technology is shared between car brands. Mazda should thank Ford for the amazing inline 4. And don’t forget Nissan’s awful CVT. Car brands share parts with eachother. Just generalizing and saying the United States can’t build a car is a lie.
Mostly because of greed
Ford sell huge amoumts in the UK for decades to the point it’s not seen as an American company but basically British. The cars are totally different to the US. Vauxhall sell a huge amount too and that was a British company originally
I hate to be in defence of GM etc but this video is fiction.Late model German cars are time bombs despite the high prices.Look up the trouble free lifetime of a ford crown Victoria or a Lincoln town car compared to any import. GMs case are as disposable as German cars now that they’re fwd but their pre variable displacement engines were good for 600k miles .You failed to mention the high proportion of foreign cars that have high maintenance (hi cost )timing belts that have to be replaced at regular intervals Japanese do not allow cars in unless they go through a non tariff barrier that is , each car must be inspected.European countries have similar disincentives
The interesting thing about Europe (I‘m from Germany) that the only american car brand that is actually driven by some amount of people is Ford. Opel might have been owned by GM for a long time but was allways considered to be a German car as well since it was founded in Germany and then later sold to GM. It makes me wonder what makes Ford so special that they are still able to sell cars in Europe. I drive a Frod mysef and my belive is just the ratio of price and stuff you get for that money. If you buy a VW for instance (no matter what the brand) you start with a kind of high price for the base modell. Quality is good of course but you know sometimes it would be nice to have some more features in your car. Well Ford does offer that. In therms of material quality it can hardly compet with VW but compared to the most brands out there Ford actually sells really good cars! And if I can have a little more features fir my money I better take that! I‘ve driven two cars myself in my life. And both of them where Ford (Ford Focus and Ford Ecosport so far).
So I guess my point is: US brands can be able to sell cars in the European markets once they know what people want over here. And Ford acually knows.
Too many cheap parts & plastics from China. Yeah, American cars suck, & what they’re asking for them now is just a joke! I want something that’s never gonna break down on me, & doesn’t cost more than a year’s salary. Why do you think everyone is buying Toyota? They can drive those things till they have 200,000 miles on them, & then hand them down to their kids, while they still outlast a Chevy or Ford for a lifetime. My neighbor has two Toyota Pickups. One already has 100,000 miles on it. All he’s ever done on it is change the sparkplugs & put oil in it, & the mandatory smogs & tuneups through warranty because it’s a newer vehicle. He drives from San Francisco weekly for his business, so that’s why it has soo many miles on it. Yet still not a single major breakdown of anykid, & it’s still going strong!
The last two Fords I have owned were very reliable and lasted much longer than I expected
American cars rule. America sucks! I prefer to keep the American car, but dump the Shithole USA 🇺🇸.
In order to understand 1950s quality revolution is one of the best case study
Gas is 5 dollars now 😐
Why were the very first Fords ever made so popular? And why was the old Volkswagon Beatle so popular? They were built with the owner to work on, to fix, -built for an owner which may not have great mechanical skills, and finally they were also built for thriftiness.
Just happened across this video and was impressed. New Sub added 👍
Tesla should be part of the American car brands, otherwise don’t say this is a video about "American Car brands".
Personally, I work with materials as a career, cheap drives everything… I am not comfortable with this business model, this really puts a lot of pressure on the backside, the technician and. This video is spot on and we are in throes of tough times.😢😓
American cars are overpriced and the quality is not so good as German, Japanese or South Korean cars, Americans can barely keep up with Chinese brands like JAC, the difference is that while everyone was competing American automakers thought they had the pan by the handle and no need to compete, Tesla is the only American brand willing to compete.
I am interested how taxes on cars work in America. ( perhaps other EU countries ). In The Netherlands you pay for insurance obviously and road tax each month. The weight is being looked at and if you drive a petrol car or a diesel. I have a Renault Megane 3 Coupé. It weighs almost 1200 kilo’s ( 2645 lbs says google ). And have to pay 50 euro’s per month for road tax. It is a petrol. If it was a Diesel you had to pay like 130 euro’s. So you rarely see heavy cars here. Because it’s just not worth. How is that in America? Does weight matter or? Thanks in advance!
Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh how dear you say that american cars are bad 👎🙄😒😑😐
I used to work at a Ford plant, but drove a Japanese car. That was awkward. I had to park in the "junkyard", the furthest parking lot from the front door.
When Trump loudly complained that Europeans don’t buy American cars whereas Americans do buy European cars he ought to have asked those Americans why they buy them.