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Originally Posted by Dr Smith
We have to also remember that the labour cost in building a car isn't the major component so it's not like there is going to be a dramatic savings for Toyota. It's moreso thatthey have excess staff for the current build rates.
If anyone saw a recent doco on building the new BMW X3 in the US the actual manual work involved really only begins at the interior fitout point with some workers initially placing the body components in a jig for the robots to do almost all the next stage of assembly including door fitting etc.. I was surprised at just how much mechanised assembly there is in obviously a very modern plant.
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If this is the case then I would love to know why our cars are so expensive, compared with other countries. I always thought the labor component was where all the $$$ was.