In 1979 the voters of Great Britain went to the polls. The outcome of this election would go to effects, which can still be felt. The voter has a bold choice. A first for British politics. The good people of the British Isles voted for a woman. At the time the British car industry had a couple of problems and as a result of government money, our money was used to produce prop up an ailing industry, bad cars, bad.

controlled by the unions, British Leyland was doomed to failure, but had supported to avoid the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. That was it. Billions of pounds have been used to a business is built the cars that people do not want to buy. Old technology, poor quality of construction and union strikes were in the British car industry make a mockery of the whole world.

So what happened to the British car industry? Easy, broke it. In the following years the profitable bits were from companies that wanted to buy our cars, people could be sold. The bits that nobody wanted to die a slow painful death, especially the Rover brand to finally rolled up his toes in 2005.

Almost thirty years forward and the American voters have just been to the polls. The voter has a bold choice. A first for American politics. The good people of the U.S. of A. voted for an African-American. As you know, the American automobile industry with a few problems at the moment and as a result of government money, your money will be asked to support that a sick economy produces bad cars, bad.

was thirty years ago in Britain there is a huge push to buy British. A great idea except for the fact that the goods you bought were lower than those of the Japanese and the Germans made. No doubt there are those over the pond, which currently admit this as a remedy for their sorrow industries, unfortunately it has not here and it will never work there. Germany and Japan to produce cars for sale in any market in the world. The people are dreaming of a Mercedes Benz or a Lexus flagship. Not many people look to General Motors for their next dream car.

With all three major difficulties in America’s deep and deeper in debt, is Barrack Obama have to make a difficult choice. Invest billions in public money to support an industry that sentenced for viewers to fail, or not invest, and let capitalism seems to take its course. Either way, this American dilemma know of a striking resemblance to the fate of the British car industry, and we all know what happened to it.

to survive and in what form, U.S. manufacturers must try to cars, built to sell in all markets, at home and abroad . The problem is that they are facing foreign manufacturers do this already, and if we are honest, brutal, they do it very well. So instead of wasting all those billions propping up an ailing economy, why not buy a Mercedes or Toyota and move it into the U.S.? It can give you more in the short term costs but long term you will be a car industry that have the quality cars that people want to buy in the world to manage. The alternative? Well, take a look at British Leyland.