Originally Posted by woj

I agree, it went downhill when foreign competition started... at that time instead of getting their shit together, innovating, etc... auto industry lobbyists got the government to enact quotas on imported cars, causing their prices to rise... this allowed incompetence and lack of innovation to continue...

this protection from the government kept the industry alive for a few more decades, until artificially high wages created by unions combined with lack of innovation finally killed off the Detroit auto industry...