Toyota vs Ford

SuPrAhOtTiE · Post by **SuPrAhOtTiE** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:50 pm

Don't know if this is repost but I thought it was good....

Subject: Toyota & Ford

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 moving all 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:

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

Ford folks are still scratching their heads.

IF THIS WEREN'T TRUE, IT MIGHT BE FUNNY

SweetEBPSi · Post by **SweetEBPSi** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:00 pm

There was a blurb in Honda Tuning about the same thing. Only it was Honda. It was funny to read. I knew exactly what the guy was talking about since I work with someone that still thinks that more money is kept in the US by American car companies verses Import car companies.

bildo16 · Post by **bildo16** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:11 pm

thats what i love about the "good ole boys" out here in troy. they love talking shit on me for working for honda, but at least i know the company i work for is making money and not closing up shop here and moving overseas. The GM comercial on tv now cracks me up, "we have more models than toyota and honda that get over 30mpg". thats awesome because they are all the same cars just named different. Jim Trenary has an ad in the lincoln county journal where the "new" g8 is pictured but with the Aussie model pictured.

SweetEBPSi · Post by **SweetEBPSi** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:16 pm

bildo16;133237 wrote: The GM comercial on tv now cracks me up, "we have more models than toyota and honda that get over 30mpg".

I find that funny considering that Honda and Toyota have cars that are over 35+ mpg. Welcome to 5 years ago GM.

subygrl · Post by **subygrl** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:14 pm

Funny considering you own one of each lol :biglaugh:

dodgin_it · Post by **dodgin_it** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:34 pm

subygrl;133243 wrote:Funny considering you own one of each lol :biglaugh:

and i own none of the above? sirn! gooooooooooo dodge! lol

i need a honda.

bildo16 · Post by **bildo16** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:23 pm

dodgin_it;133245 wrote:and i own none of the above? sirn! gooooooooooo dodge! lol

i need a honda.

lol, dodge. have you seen the entire website dedicated to chryslers fuck ups?

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:44 pm

bildo16;133237 wrote:thats what i love about the "good ole boys" out here in troy. they love talking shit on me for working for honda, but at least i know the company i work for is making money and not closing up shop here and moving overseas. The GM comercial on tv now cracks me up, "we have more models than toyota and honda that get over 30mpg". thats awesome because they are all the same cars just named different. Jim Trenary has an ad in the lincoln county journal where the "new" g8 is pictured but with the Aussie model pictured.

thats how the people are out here in warrenton. they think their big ol' v8's are the greatest gift from god. and then blame my "power adder(turbo)" on the fact that my little ol 4 cylinder beat them, and got better mpg's doing it

dodgin_it · Post by **dodgin_it** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:46 pm

bildo16;133262 wrote:lol, dodge. have you seen the entire website dedicated to chryslers fuck ups?

no. and unless you have xanax on hand i won't be checking out that site soon lol

SuPrAhOtTiE · Post by **SuPrAhOtTiE** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:53 am

Tyler;133284 wrote:thats how the people are out here in warrenton. they think their big ol' v8's are the greatest gift from god. and then blame my "power adder(turbo)" on the fact that my little ol 4 cylinder beat them, and got better mpg's doing it

Thats so fucking gay. So what if you are boosted. They had the opp. to boost their cars if they wanted. Fuckin' morons. If you get beat, make your junk faster, don't get all cunt hurt.