[OAC_Sparky]

ondafritz,Apr 5 2007, 01:28 AM Wrote:Are they hiring lol? Anyways, ZTWSquared you posted a A+ media grade response to all of my concerns, I think at the end of the day, Ford and GM, Chrysler and Toyota/Honda/Nissan will specialize in different areas and outsource from one another as in Escape/Mariner Hybrid using Toyota HSD technology and so forth.

See, THIS statement shows exactly whom is "brainwashed by marketing" and media. Ford's hybrids do not use Toyota's hybrid system. At all. Ford has "licensed" various components because the Ford design shares some component design through a third-party company partially owned by Toyota.

ie. To make a log house, I need a hammer, but my competitor who makes brick houses owns the hammer factory. So I license the hammer from him. Does that mean that I make brick houses? No. Does my competitor make log houses? No. But instead of making my own factory to make hammers, it's cheaper to just rent a hammer.

What you don't hear in the media is this: Toyota licenses diesel technology from Ford. A lot of it.

Quote:I think my post was concerning the ME4FORDs and others who are programmed in part by the marketing that Domestics are domestic and never buy a non BIG 3 (the BIG 3 from 5yrs ago) product.

The reason why the Mefords and others buy Big 3 is because 1) we work there and 2) they were the companies that have given the most to the communities that many of us live in. And if you look at the Big 3 of today, you will find that if you take the blinders off and review real quality stats that the "quality gap" between domestics and imports have been closed up for years now. The skyrocketting number of recalls lately at Toyota and Honda bear it out.

Programmed? Hardly. I just don't s*** where I eat.