Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Italian Quality (?)

[Michael James (cavallino_rapante]

Agree, and I would add that Globalized logistics is not a panacea for poor assembly quality-control, and is generally unresponsive to minor production changes when they need to occur.  Just ask Boeing why their new DreamLiner isn't flying today, or why the Ferrari 348 had so many issues.

 

M

--- On Sun, 4/17/11, Mike Fleischer <themightytoe [at] gmail.com> wrote:

From: Mike Fleischer <themightytoe [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Italian Quality (?)
To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011, 10:15 PM

This is a load of crap.

If this were true we would all be driving Chinese Chery's or Brilliance Motor's cars...  But last I heard the doors still fall off of these on a semi regular basis. 

Cars are still only as good as the amount of input from the engineers that makes it to production and as poor as the amount of input from accountants. 

A good example of globalization that helped Italian car manufacturers?  Lamborghini.  The engineers came from Germany and they kept the Italian accountants...

Mike


On 4/17/2011 6:22 PM, Larry Bard wrote:

From a review of the new Alfa:
 
"What would it take for the Alfa Giulietta to succeed in the U.S.? Well, first, it would require a good number of Americans to abandon the smug cliché of Italian cars being unreliable, "Fix It Again, Tony," etc. Italian cars are as good as, and in many ways better than, anything else on the road. Such is the nominalizing effect of the global supply chain, from which all companies source their parts and technology."
 

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