Actually Cap the Foremen are company guys,they didnt want to look bad,the union had nothing to do with it except take money from my paycheck every week!
What I'm saying is that they build cars that are far from perfect and it's all about production,gotta pump those 60 cars an hour out the door! Even if they're not selling. Atleast the Japanese car makers learned from it and try to make a good product but they too are product driven.
Cap answer me this,how many fords went to the garage to have Mr Ford listen to them to make sure they sounded like a ford??
last question first....i've not a clue.
i know that they build imperfect cars. i'm kinda surprised to hear that the formen are company men, rather than union guys. i'm not much for unions......
as for car quality......there's a reason that the "Wednesday car" thing came about. and to be honest, no one of them is better than the other in that dept in my opinion.
what i can do though, is go into my invoicing program, and find the most commonly serviced cars at my shop. or i could just state it here.
i work on a lot of mid/late 90's to early 2000's gm's....more chevys and buicks. quite a few of the "W" bodys. most of the fords i work on are regular maintenance, as are most of the toyotas.
chrysler(although i drive one right now) is the worst. these things have the most inexplicable problems. not many hondas, other than regular maintenance, although i did have that one with the slipped timing chain.
bmw's seem to start "nickel and diming" their owners at around 100 to 110k miles. mercedes's i only seem to do basic maintenance on. audis.........don't get me started.......
i've probably left a couple out.....
back to the op.......regardless of whether or not that engine is real, if given the choice, i'd buy the same corvette that's been around. i don't need or want to wind an engine to 10k rpm to get the power.
