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Originally Posted by olrocker

I had a 2015 Ford Fusion for a rental for two weeks while I was in Phoenix on vacation in Jan 2016. I’ve also had a 2022 Malibu as a rental last year.

Both cars I was very pleased with. They’re built well, good interior quality, in fact the Fusion was even better than Honda and Toyota at that time. Smooth engines, good performance, very nice cars. Better chassis than I would gave thought.

It always seems that the American companies kill cars right at the moment they’ve finally made them high quality and competitive or better than Japan. It’s like, they start off with junk, steadily improve it, then when it’s right they cancel it and kill the chassis and nameplate.

Bob Lutz called the Camaro’s Alpha chassis the best chassis GM ever made and I absolutely agree.

Yet here we are.

At your job, you keep improving your performance and get to where you’re one of the best in your position then your boss fires you.

Makes sense.

Believe it or not I experienced in a round a bout way exactly what you stated in the last two lines. I have to come to learn since,big companies don’t say it aloud, but planned obsolescence is supported in the workforce and over performers are quietly ousted.

I’m trying to summarize but there is obviously a ton more to the story. If I ever run a business. I obviously will not follow the big business, corporate stockholder model. It’s toxic, terrible, and bad for the customer. Something about something some big finance guy said in the 80s about how public traded companies are to be ran with one goal in mind- stockholder value- and just throw everything else down the toilet. Surprisingly he showed it worked. In my opinion it doesn’t work the best but at some companies… it works all too well.