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bucolic_frolic

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2. Efficiency experts panned Honda's overhead cost cutting

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2024, 08:33 AM

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They shrunk factory plans by some small % to save money by dipping car frames vertically instead of horizontally. They were well aware they couldn't achieve economies of scale on low volume so they found other ways.

Nissan? Convert the factories to Honda. This is a meeting for growth and nothing else.

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Honda and Nissan officially begin merger talks to create world's third-largest automaker [View all] BumRushDaShow Monday OP

This was inevitable once the news about Nissan got out Renew Deal Monday #1

Efficiency experts panned Honda's overhead cost cutting bucolic_frolic Monday #2

I hope it is not like other mergers where the quality in both suffer. Like Sears and K Mart, Ford and Jaguar, doc03 Monday #3

I hope so too. But I fear it's the shitification of Honda. SunSeeker Monday #4

Toyota owns parts of Mazda and Subaru IronLionZion Monday #5

Yes, that's what I was referring to. nt SunSeeker Monday #6