German Car Manufacturers Bankrupt

[sasguru]

Can we blame British management like we did here?

Germany seems brilliant at perfecting mass production and incremental improvement, but not so good at certain other things, like specialisation.
That's why 8 out of 11 Formula 1 teams, including Mercedes are based in the UK.
According to that article 80% of high performance engineers are based in the UK.

We often do ourselves down in this country when we're not half as bad as we think

[AtW]

Germany seems brilliant at perfecting mass production and incremental improvement

Germans make profit from their "mass production", it's the only long term sustainable way to survive - all that F1 malarkey is a massive loss for everybody other than Bernie.