This video has been shared with me more than a few times today and I have to say I just want to wring this engineers neck for being a moron each time I hear it. Look, I understand his frustration and yes, I get the Car Guy's view on the car companies are out to screw everyone over.
Here's the thing: it is a car business at the end of the day. The way he talks, it makes it sound like the engineer wants GM and every automaker to say yes to every engineer's desire for the top quality part available for every system on the vehicle. That sounds great!!! Until, you see the price tag. He didn't once say he understood about keeping pricing in check so they could build a truck customers can actually avoid. Oh I get it. Automakers make billions, so they should just sell trucks and take the loss. That's a solid business plan.
I'm sorry, I know a lot of people are going to watch this video and say, "hell yeah, the truth is finally out!!!" Tim E is full of shit and he is such a suck up."
I watch it and I just shake my head. This engineer didn't get it and I can't believe he never got it in all his years in the business. Hell, I grew up in Michigan and I got it. It isn't rocket science. It is a damn business. You want to build a truck with the best quality parts on the market? You do that in your garage. Automakers can't do that and be competitive. Luxury brands can. That's why a Rolls Royce costs so damn much. It is really that simple.
There's a reason why GM offshored the parts and stopped building their own. Delphi parts were really expensive. I lived in that area of town growing up. Those were UAW jobs and paid well. GM spun off Delphi, Delphi went into bankruptcy because... they had a bad business model and then finally GM got out of the business altogether.
This former engineer worked at Delphi and clearly has some bad feelings about how things went down. GM went overseas for their parts because they had to, it is good business to do so and bought parts that made sense for their business model to hit their targets for cost and margin goals.
And there's a really, REALLY OBVIOUS reason why automakers don't pull parts from new vehicle production to fix cars at dealership lots. The engineer said, "automakers are only concerned with selling new cars." No you dipshit. It costs them billions to stop plant production. It is MUCH cheaper to make a customer wait or hell give that customer a new vehicle. If you ran an automaker, which would you rather do? Spend a billion dollars for a day to shut down a plant to send a hundred customers a part or make a hundred customers wait a month, spend a hundred thousand on rental cars for a part? Pretty damn obvious. It is just business.
It is like a VP told me once. Every brand is given a pot of money to build a truck and that truck has to be cost competitive with the market. They all have the same margin and everyone has to find a way to hit those price targets and margins. That's the car business. Plain and simple. There's nothing criminal about it. It is a business.
Watch it for yourself. I swear if I was a different kind of channel, I'd do a reaction video and rip this video apart.
Here's the thing: it is a car business at the end of the day. The way he talks, it makes it sound like the engineer wants GM and every automaker to say yes to every engineer's desire for the top quality part available for every system on the vehicle. That sounds great!!! Until, you see the price tag. He didn't once say he understood about keeping pricing in check so they could build a truck customers can actually avoid. Oh I get it. Automakers make billions, so they should just sell trucks and take the loss. That's a solid business plan.
I'm sorry, I know a lot of people are going to watch this video and say, "hell yeah, the truth is finally out!!!" Tim E is full of shit and he is such a suck up."
I watch it and I just shake my head. This engineer didn't get it and I can't believe he never got it in all his years in the business. Hell, I grew up in Michigan and I got it. It isn't rocket science. It is a damn business. You want to build a truck with the best quality parts on the market? You do that in your garage. Automakers can't do that and be competitive. Luxury brands can. That's why a Rolls Royce costs so damn much. It is really that simple.
There's a reason why GM offshored the parts and stopped building their own. Delphi parts were really expensive. I lived in that area of town growing up. Those were UAW jobs and paid well. GM spun off Delphi, Delphi went into bankruptcy because... they had a bad business model and then finally GM got out of the business altogether.
This former engineer worked at Delphi and clearly has some bad feelings about how things went down. GM went overseas for their parts because they had to, it is good business to do so and bought parts that made sense for their business model to hit their targets for cost and margin goals.
And there's a really, REALLY OBVIOUS reason why automakers don't pull parts from new vehicle production to fix cars at dealership lots. The engineer said, "automakers are only concerned with selling new cars." No you dipshit. It costs them billions to stop plant production. It is MUCH cheaper to make a customer wait or hell give that customer a new vehicle. If you ran an automaker, which would you rather do? Spend a billion dollars for a day to shut down a plant to send a hundred customers a part or make a hundred customers wait a month, spend a hundred thousand on rental cars for a part? Pretty damn obvious. It is just business.
It is like a VP told me once. Every brand is given a pot of money to build a truck and that truck has to be cost competitive with the market. They all have the same margin and everyone has to find a way to hit those price targets and margins. That's the car business. Plain and simple. There's nothing criminal about it. It is a business.
Watch it for yourself. I swear if I was a different kind of channel, I'd do a reaction video and rip this video apart.
