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Frost's simplistic assertion that public equals inefficient equals bad is contradicted by the experiences of Volkswagen and Renault. These two government-run (German and French, respectively) automobile firms have turned handsome profits and sold many cars in British Leyland's own market by investing wisely in new capital and research and development. Putting the blame for Britain's problems on government spending alone is cloud-cuckoo emotionalism and bad economics. It wins elections but doesn't run countries. According to Mr. Frost, only Mrs. Thatcher's strong stands on such questions as immigration and law and order--the sort...
September 19, 1980. 38-year-old Dave McNally, part-owner and manager of D&T Volkswagen, Billings, Montana, picked up a newspaper and discovered the Orioles had beaten Detroit, 9-3, the night before. An Oriole fan, he has not seen them play this year. "They don't come by here too often," he laughs...
Returning to his hometown of Billings in 1975, he started that second career. Now, he and his brother own D&T Volkswagen, as well as a Porsche-Audi dealership down the road. Although he is younger than active pitchers Gaylord Perry, Jim Kaat and Grant Jackson, he has no regrets...
...union career in 1935 while loading fenders for Chrysler in a De Soto plant. Though an avowed Western European-style socialist, he is also a member of the Chrysler board of directors. Says the union boss: "Before I went to Japan last spring, I asked the president of Volkswagen of America if I could still say the quality of Volkswagens built in Pennsylvania is as good as that of the ones built in West Germany. He said I could go one further than that and say that they were better...
...Japan's auto plants, however, are marvels of design like the Volkswagen plant built two years ago in New Stanton, Pa., or some of the other new and redesigned American factories. The Toyota operations in Toyota City near Nagoya are noisy, dark and cramped. At 60 cars per hour, the assembly lines do not even approximate the blistering 100-car-an-hour pace once set by GM's Lordstown, Ohio, line. But the slower speeds allow workers more time for the job at hand, and as a result the parts fit snugly and the screws are tight. Each...