You don’t understand. CAFE is fuel economy. The fuel economy didn’t get better in any meaningful way. Per your link: “some tests even showed a slight fuel economy improvement” Emissions are a different story from fuel economy. That Honda system did avoid catalytic convertors but catalytic convertors weren’t the…

That’s modern revised CAFE. The footprint rule and a few other things.

Big sedans with V8s were effectively killed off in the 80s to make CAFE numbers. The marketing and media promoted small engines and FWD because that’s what needed to sell or else uncle would punish the car manufacturers. The Germans didn’t much care for it and just passed the penalties on in the form of higher prices.…

CAFE killed them in the USA, not the customers. CAFE was designed to kill the RWD V8 and I6 passenger cars, especially the ordinary family cars. It was successful. By 1985 few were left and the numbers continued to decline from there. By the time GM made their half-assed attempts importing holdens few buyers even…

It’s the worldwide regulatory structure along with Australia’s own problems in that regard. Across the developed world those who want to destroy the fun of motoring but also motoring itself have the upper hand. The hoon laws in Australia are particularly harsh last I read of them. Fuel economy and CO2 laws and the…

Those cars are parked off to the side because they are going to be saved and sold, auctioned specially, sold to employees, friends, and relatives, or otherwise.

If they were heading to the crusher or to be parted they would be mixed in with the others.

If you’re at the supplier you may be doing 100% outgoing inspection. But the company buying the parts wouldn’t be doing 100% incoming inspection.

All these accusations regarding me you’re throwing and your defense of the honor consumer reports..... you’re a shining example.

A company the size of Ford will have requirements for suppliers that shove a lot of the work on to them. I used to work for such a company.

100% incoming inspection means there are some serious problems unless it’s a very specialized and life-critical part. Actually I would guess ford aims for very little if not zero…

You’re making the assumptions. Please stop making up arguments for me. You might notice I made no reference comparing CR to anything. I state what CR is and people start going off, usually into left field like you.

I’ve been developing products for a couple decades. I know how to error proof. You don’t error proof by adding a half an inch to a 19 inch part that is visually the same. You don’t mix the two parts and then sort them. You don’t measure every one either. Not when they are received and certainly not at the line.

Except nobody is going to buy a sorting machine for wheels (because they shouldn’t be mixed together in the first place) and you don’t want every wheel being measured. They would be packaged separately under separate part numbers. That should be good enough for modern manufacturing methods.

A half inch difference on something that large is too small not to mix up if looking at it by eye, so I doubt that is reason.

The axles have been replaced, there’s a crack in the front panel, the toy driver that fits in it is missing.....

What gives? Both are pushing us towards a desired centrally managed technocratic future so they get money shoveled at them from a variety of methods and the media hype to push it to the people. If it wasn’t for central banking both would dry up and be scattered by the wind. These companies are (financially) products…

Try AMC:

Unlikely.
There are various alloys of steel around the world and Kobe would be making primarily if not entirely JIS grades. Ford would specify steel in one of the US grading systems, ASTM, ANSI, or SAE. There are overlaps betwen all grade systems but it is doubtful ford would go all the way to Japan for special steel.…

You must make a lot of assumptions about people. I simply understand data collection and the limitations of various forms of it. But thanks for proving the CR cult is alive and well.

Subscribers are going to be rather like minded with CR’s staff. Then only a subset of subscribers return the survey.

Should have seen this coming. The battle of egos between CR and TM.