Comment by Peanuts99
5 days ago
German car quality is a mark of how optimised manufacturers have got for building cars that work within 2 terms of 4 year finance plans.
You'd be foolish to think it correlates to any sense of innovation or entrepreneurialism.
OK, so why are German auto manufacturers no longer capable of building globally competitive products? They seem to have just given up and are now following a managed decline process with no plan for growth.
China mostly. They got undercut.
Undercut? I believe the word you're looking for is "outcompeted".
Right, but why don't the Germans respond? I understand that they have some structural cost disadvantages but they seem to have been caught by surprise and just gave up.
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