In article <[log in to unmask]>,
Mark Wonsil  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As for HP, how do they handle the commodity issue?  The auto industry has
> gone through two such events.  When Ford got into the mass production
> business he tried to make the car a commodity.  Later the Japanese did the
> same.  Did the existing auto-makers throw away their high-valued line?

The ones who didn't went out of business or were bought by Ford or GM, who
applied commodity methods to producing a "high end" commodity vehicle that
was good enough even if it was no Duesenberg.

There's a bunch of non-commodity cars, but they tend to be special purpose
machines: construction equipment, recreational vehicles, military, that sort
of thing. Stewart and Stevenson here in Houston make some amazingly cool
offroad trucks, but they're not Duesenberg either.

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