• @sizzler@lemmy.world
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    101 year ago

    Take a look at what VW did to the British car market with illegal subsidies from the German Government. Then look at VW being caught in the emissions scandle. Long story short, cheating is profitable.

    • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      British car manufacturers didn’t need Germany to dismantle themselves. The only reason you even have a car industry left is because German companies came in, bought up those husks of mismanagement out of (near) bankruptcy, and turned them around.

      Long story short: Don’t let nobs run your companies. They were as good at deciding what customers want as Homer Simpson is at designing a car and caused strike after strike by being, well, arrogant nobs telling the peasants to eat cake.

    • @crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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      21 year ago

      The Germans and the French wrecked British car manufacturers because they were better, not because of subsidies. British cars at the time sucked.