[Healeys] Moss brake recall

[Bob Spidell]

Alan has unique perspective on Chinese culture.  I'm with him on this.

Yes, every country/culture produces crap.  And, it's a fine line between 'cultural bias' and informed observation.  In 
general, I believe the following:

- Germans over-engineer pretty much everything (one of the reasons they lost WWII; good/best hardware, couldn't build 
enough of it)
- British build brilliant but quirky stuff (Jag D-Type, Merlin engines, Austin-Healeys)
- Japanese started out as cheap imitators but an obsession with quality--inspired by an American rejected by his own 
'culture'--let them to the head of the pack (they've come back a little lately)
- Italians good at style
- Americans good at building lots of decent 'middle-of-pack' and occasionally extraordinary stuff (SR-71 tops the list)
- French are French

Chinese are at the 'cheap imitator' stage; remains to be seen if they move past it.  Should be interesting.

I googled, but couldn't find the country of manufacture for the 'Classic Gold' products.  Do we know for sure they were 
made in China?

Bob



On 9/15/2011 11:07 AM, Jonas Payne wrote:
> As evidenced by the fact that the fellows in charge of the Melamine
> incident were publicly executed, I think it's a safe bet that the
> Chinese culture did not find it "perfectly fine".
>
> I have a pile of crap parts made in Germany, Great Britain, Australia,
> Mexico, Romania, Italy and the Good Ol' USA that have failed as well.
>
> Anybody want to talk about fuel filler necks on Ford Pintos?  Self
> immolating Lotus Esprits?  Volvo's explosive bumper shocks?
>
> I don't mind a healthy discourse about parts, but lets leave racism and
> cultural bias out of the equation.
>
>
> Jonas Payne
> PBR
> Cell:   (702) 358-5084
>
>
>
> Sorry, have to disagree.  I know of no other culture on earth that would
> consider it perfectly fine to produce baby formula made of melamine,
> imitation cancer/heart medicines made of sugar, or kindergartens made of
> low PSI concrete in an earthquake zone.
>
> Any self respecting enterprise would not source brake components from
> China unless they had absolute full QA/QC control on the shop floor.
> Clearly Moss did not do that.
>
> Moss quality is improving, but they should not source brake parts from
> anywhere except the OECD.
>
> 2011/9/15 Oudesluys<coudesluijs at chello.nl>
>
>> Why do the Chinese want to make things cheap?
>> Not their fault but the fault of greedy (Western) consumers who do not
>> want to part with their cash, thus killing proper manufacturers.
>> You cannot blame the Chinese, blame yourselves.
>> Kees Oudesluijs
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