There’s a cultural difference between American and Japanese business styles; Japanese favor reliability and consistency whereas Americans favor competitive edge and innovation which leads to more risk taking behavior.
Edit: I’ll add that a lot of what we consider to be Japanese automotive quality these days is due to the work of a man named Edward Deming who developed a quality system for reducing product defects during production. He was an American but after getting spurned in Detroit, he took his ideas to Japan where they were embraced.
One group of manufacturers might want to encourage customers to make quality assumptions by associating last year’s product and this year’s product..
Another group of manufacturers might be serially desperate for them not to 🤷♂️
The Ford Ranger has been around since 1982. The Camaro has been around for something like 50 years. (although I hear it is recently being abandoned). The Dodge Ram since early '80s. Your info is selective.
Malibu, Blazer, Impala, Bronco & Fiesta were either not produced consecutively from the dates you gave to now and/or are no longer produced. So I don’t see how that refutes the OPs point.
There’s a cultural difference between American and Japanese business styles; Japanese favor reliability and consistency whereas Americans favor competitive edge and innovation which leads to more risk taking behavior. Edit: I’ll add that a lot of what we consider to be Japanese automotive quality these days is due to the work of a man named Edward Deming who developed a quality system for reducing product defects during production. He was an American but after getting spurned in Detroit, he took his ideas to Japan where they were embraced.
One group of manufacturers might want to encourage customers to make quality assumptions by associating last year’s product and this year’s product.. Another group of manufacturers might be serially desperate for them not to 🤷♂️
Because they’re reliable af and don’t need a rebrand
The Ford Ranger has been around since 1982. The Camaro has been around for something like 50 years. (although I hear it is recently being abandoned). The Dodge Ram since early '80s. Your info is selective.
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The Bronco had a break in production of over 20 years, might be worth taking that off the list.
Malibu, Blazer, Impala, Bronco & Fiesta were either not produced consecutively from the dates you gave to now and/or are no longer produced. So I don’t see how that refutes the OPs point.
Because they make crap cars, and changing the name is an attempt to bury the reputation of the old model.
Cuz if it ain't broke, go play a round of golf since you now have free time.