[ExI] tech question

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 00:12:54 UTC 2017


​About 60 years ago. VW invaded and showed that American car makers needed
to wake up.

Since then, Honda has shown Briggs and Statton how to make a lawnmower
engine be​tter.

Look at the Consumer Reports evaluation of used cars and trucks:  Japanese
and the occasional Korean vehicles are at the top of every list.  (Better
than the Germans, note.)

We lead the world in Nobel prizes every time, it seems, so why can't we
compete with the foreigners in engine design?  Billions of our dollars are
going overseas because of this, leading to typical negative balance of
trade figures.  Not the only source, of course.

What gives?  It can't be just intelligence and creativity, can it?

bill w
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