Re: Plant tour & GT500 delivery, minor rant

You would be surprised with the quality of the cars in the last decade. The
one thing I have to give it to Ford over GM is if they have a problem, they
fix it during production. My father was a quality control engineer in the
1990's with Ford. When they had failure problem with parts, they would stop
producing cars until replacement parts were brought in. This wasn't
necessarily just another batch of the same parts. Sometimes they had to redesign the
part and get a test quantity to make sure the part worked, before continuing
full production.
I had Corvettes for 14 year, and modern ones from 1987 to 1999. The problems
I had persisted from year to year, even after several model years. Ford is
not perfect, but quality and fit and finish has improved dramatically.
Perception becomes an issue with US auto makers. They were forced to have much
higher standards or they would have gone bankrupt.
Ford reacted first of the big three to get that point, Chrysler second, and
GM last.
Lucky for me my Shelby is far more reliable and cheaper to maintain than my
Corvettes.
Lee 66 # 869