Do you think the US Gov't, Fiat, France and consumers will ultimately find our efficient, powerful, accident resistant and diesel powered trucks worthy or worthless?

 

well lets see, u.s. government = liberal panzies, france = liberal panzies, i would say they will say worthy but wasteful and maybe even dirty, which will result in worthless by their liberal standards.

 

The government can't manage anything efficiently. Just to name a few, post office, VA hospitals, DMV, social security, medicare, and the IRS. Just keep in mind 30 or 40 years ago Amtrack was loosing money and the government stepped in to help. Now Amtrack only needs 50% of government money (our taxes) to keep afloat. In 20 more years or so they might work it's way to 49% extra funding . Amtrack now is what GM & Chrysler will be in the future . I am still in shock how the bond holders got 0.29 cents on the dollar and the UAW get a pretty sweet deal on ownership. Sure was a good idea to give all the billions to the auto companies to prevent a bankruptcy. Who came up with the idea to throw $ at the auto companies.......ah yes the government .

 

Chrysler isn't too thrifty with their money either.
Just thinking last night when I saw 3 - 2010 Ram test mules driving through the mountains, pulling their special trailers, why do they spend all the $ on this when they could get it done for free?
Ok they're paying a guy (2 guys in 2 of the trucks) wages, living out expenses, fuel for the truck, cost of the trailer to test out a new platform, which I believe is just new sheetmetal and interior.
At the same time, I passed at least 1/2 dozen hot shot drivers pulling loads with 1 tons.
Why doesn't Chrysler look up a few of these guys and give them the truck to pull their loads with to test the trucks? I mean it's not like they have the design engineer doing the test driving (do they?). Probably some flunky who is on light duty from the assembly line doing the test driving.
I'm sure there's any number of hot shot drivers that would take a free truck for a period of time for testing and be more than willing to follow some basic rules laid down by Chrysler to make them effective tests.
Oh and ***?, all 3 trucks were duallys, 1 was a C&C and they were pulling EMPTY trailers.

 

The test vehicles are fitted with lots of test sensors and monitored full time, I doubt a hot shotter would have the time or inclination to want to watch the computer screens all day and record the findings.

 

Wouldn't the computer keep track of those record findings? I would think the driver could just monitor the road and let the computers watch the data?

 

Whats France got to do with it? Fiat is an Italian company.