What has become of the US splendor?

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  • Massive Lee
    R3V OG
    • Sep 2006
    • 6785

    #1

    What has become of the US splendor?

    Here are some superb contemporary, yet so sad, pictures of Detroit - once the symbol of America's industrial advancement - depicting a distant splendor. Has America's own corporate world bitten itself and left its workforce behind?




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  • Vedubin01
    R3V Elite
    • Jun 2006
    • 5852

    #2
    liberals and unions destroyed Detroit. You Canadian's can have it!


    PS, you have to take the trash with it!
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    • KenC
      King of Kegstands
      • Oct 2003
      • 14396

      #3
      American auto industry was mismanaged while they built sub-par cars... not a good combo. Detroit pretty much had the big three and that's it.
      Originally posted by Gruelius
      and i do not know what bugg brakes are.

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      • KenC
        King of Kegstands
        • Oct 2003
        • 14396

        #4
        Unions are only half the story
        Originally posted by Gruelius
        and i do not know what bugg brakes are.

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        • Vedubin01
          R3V Elite
          • Jun 2006
          • 5852

          #5
          Originally posted by KenC
          Unions are only half the story

          Other half was politics...
          Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs!

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          • KenC
            King of Kegstands
            • Oct 2003
            • 14396

            #6
            Originally posted by Vedubin01
            Other half was politics...
            And shitty cars and waste all over the place.
            Originally posted by Gruelius
            and i do not know what bugg brakes are.

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            • LBJefferies
              Banned
              • Sep 2009
              • 1690

              #7
              Businesses need to cover all the bases in order to survive in the long run. They need to offer quality products at competitive prices, and they need to take reasonable steps to keep their employees and customers happy so that they retain skilled workers and loyal customers. Government needs to do it's job by more or less butting out. None of these bases were covered by the American auto industry.

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              • samiam3356
                E30 Mastermind
                • Jul 2009
                • 1901

                #8
                Saw the special on this the other night. About how these nice building that once were the place to go and be seen were being left to perish. No different then mining towns back in the day.

                However, there are many foreign brands that get their cars manufactured right here in the US. Including Mercedes in Vance, AL.

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                • mrsleeve
                  I waste 90% of my day here and all I got was this stupid title
                  • Mar 2005
                  • 16385

                  #9
                  member on here took many of those (or at least the very same pics and not published) I cant remember the name though


                  Hes got a huge long thread over on BFC with a shit load of them posted


                  Oh and Detroit as it stands now is a product of and the end game for Racial Politics at there finest. Of the same ilk that are now being played out on a national and international scale.
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                  • StereoInstaller1
                    GAS
                    • Jul 2004
                    • 22679

                    #10
                    Jesus fuck...what happened is the rest of the world woke up and stopped letting us lead them all by the nose. All this shit is cyclical, we were up, now we are down a bit. Shit will change again.

                    Closing SOON!
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                    • e30e
                      R3VLimited
                      • Dec 2004
                      • 2176

                      #11
                      Originally posted by StereoInstaller1
                      Jesus fuck...what happened is the rest of the world woke up and stopped letting us lead them all by the nose. All this shit is cyclical, we were up, now we are down a bit. Shit will change again.
                      This is a P/S thread, no logic is allowed here.
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                      • StereoInstaller1
                        GAS
                        • Jul 2004
                        • 22679

                        #12
                        Originally posted by e30e
                        This is a P/S thread, no logic is allowed here.
                        oh duh. I should have known better, my bad.

                        Closing SOON!
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                        • shiftbmw
                          R3VLimited
                          • Oct 2005
                          • 2012

                          #13
                          This thread seems like a pretty sloppy trolling attempt.
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                          • Edev
                            No R3VLimiter
                            • Aug 2008
                            • 3731

                            #14
                            Damn. Those pictures in that link are unreal.
                            M Coupe

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                            • joshh
                              R3V OG
                              • Aug 2004
                              • 6195

                              #15
                              It is a sloppy troll attempt. Might as well have said "workers of the world unite".

                              The issue is not that the worker has been left behind but that we have allowed companies to get "too big to fail"...and not let them fail when they make bad business decisions. And squeeze small business owners out of many markets. And no small business owners are not "the worker".
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