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Forum (Forum & Focus)

Nov. 11, 2008

Wheels of Fortune

American car manufacturers have at long last improved the quality of their products, but given the worsening state of the economy, this may well be a case of too little and too late, writes Gideon Kanner. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Gideon Kanner

Reading about the ongoing catastrophic decline in the fortunes of the American automobile industry got me thinking. True enough, those Detroit worthies who are in charge of manufacturing American cars haven't been what you might call astute for a long time. The plain fact is that, unchastened by decades of their steadily declining fortunes in the market, they have too often produced ugly and unreliable junk, even as t...

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