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Originally Posted by HappyMan
I think that is slightly unfair on Honda(and business as a whole) shareholders invest money into a company trusting the management of that company to make a profit and rightly expect a return on that trust. Shareholders apply pressure to return a profit each years which in turn should make the management of that company do the cost cutting or cost analysis etc. In fact, the management should be blamed not the shareholder for cost cutting disasters.
However, I would like to see this penchant for cost cutting at the expense of quality changed but that would mean we would have to pay a little extra for our cars. Personally if it meant having a higher quality car I would have no problem paying a little extra. Many people wouldn't though!
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Unfair, well, maybe - but it's also not too fair to get a new car that is really not cheap and then have several repairs in the first year already.
I know it's not just Honda, every manufacturer is acting similarly to some extent because the market forces them to. But they can't blame me if I won't be getting another car every three years as I used to do - because I'm afraid the next model is worse than the previous one. And if a few million customers come to this conclusion, the industry will really have a problem.