[Newsbot]

Title: Ford, GM co-design transmissions
Category: Business
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2012-10-01 14:17:57

[Robair]

The Myans were right!

[SprCForr]

Boneheads. Take an Allision trans and bolt it to a Cummins.

Give us the option to have a Lenco.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

Instead of helping GM, Ford should be crushing them.

-J.

[Lemmy]

Not surprising when you consider that automobile manufactures have been colluding with one another to fuck over consumers for generations.

[Freakinoldguy]

This is just the first step towards the universal platform they were talking about a few years back.

Next comes the super plants.

[OnTheIce]

Manufacturers have been co-designing vehicles and parts for quite a long time. This isn't really anything new.

Lemmy Lemmy:

Not surprising when you consider that automobile manufactures have been colluding with one another to fuck over consumers for generations.

How so?

[Lemmy]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

How so?

Price fixing, engineered break-down, reluctance to adopt safety features, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

[saturn_656]

As long as they don't involve Chrysler, I'm cool with this.

[OnTheIce]

Lemmy Lemmy:

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

How so?

Price fixing, engineered break-down, reluctance to adopt safety features, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

You're entitled to your opinion.

[Robair]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

Lemmy Lemmy:

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

How so?

Price fixing, engineered break-down, reluctance to adopt safety features, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

You're entitled to your opinion.

He sort of has a point. A car is engineered to last 7 years.

But Lemmy's a bit jaded, he's bought some lemons.

[Public_Domain]

[OnTheIce]

Robair Robair:

He sort of has a point. A car is engineered to last 7 years.

But Lemmy's a bit jaded, he's bought some lemons.

That's a common myth, but there's no truth to that whatsoever.

[Lemmy]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

You're entitled to your opinion.

It's not an opinion. It's fact.

Robair Robair:

But Lemmy's a bit jaded, he's bought some lemons.

'78 Dodge Omni.

[Robair]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

Robair Robair:

He sort of has a point. A car is engineered to last 7 years.

But Lemmy's a bit jaded, he's bought some lemons.

That's a common myth, but there's no truth to that whatsoever.

I've never worked in the automotive industry, buy I know that it IS how it's done with municipal equipment (street sweepers, garbage trucks etc).

The machines used to be built too good. Take a Vac-All, there's towns still using a 30 year old machine (because they were built too heavy and don't wear out) and if you try to sell them a new one, no way they'll consider that brand again. Because the one they've got is so hard to work with. Well, yea... it's 30 years old.

Companys in that idustry have smartened up, and now the machines don't contain so much steel. You want them to be not worth fixing in a decade or so. otherwise they won't be buying another one. Just keep replacing bushings in the one they've got...

Now I work in forestry equipment. You don't have to worry about that stuff lasting too long! Just build as strong as the budget allows.