how come axis powers of ww2...

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i was watching a bunch of documentaries. 3 main countries of axis are germany, italy and japan. even though they lost, but all these countries are big in motorsports now. what's up with that? lol

germany: bmw, vw...
italy: fiat, ducati, lambo, ferrari...
japan: yami, honda...
 
Japan was banned from making air planes, so most of there engineers went to the car and motorcycle business. Could be the same for germany and italy?
 
1930s factories made the US bombers that destroyed the 1930s axis factories. They built new ones and we kept our old stuff.
 
Because the Axis nations were banned from making arms except for self-defense. They were able to focus their economy on producing goods rather than weapons. The US occupied Japan after the war and helped them rebuild.
 
RetroGrouch said:
Because the Axis nations were banned from making arms except for self-defense. They were able to focus their economy on producing goods rather than weapons. The US occupied Japan after the war and helped them rebuild.
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Yup, they helped them a bit too much with the auto industry!
 
murf said:
Yup, they helped them a bit too much with the auto industry!
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WRT to manufacturing -and the auto industry- you're absolutely right: most of the ideals, strategies (lean, six sigma and related quality standards) were mostly ideas that were bred here. The problem was adaptation, as North American workers and plants would not accept these strategies. The Japanese welcomed these ideals, accepted them and perfected them. There's a lot to be said for humble diligence, and pride of workmanship.

Ze Germans have always been extremely thorough and strict in their execution of motorsports. Hitler actually had a great amount of interest in dominating racing leagues (esp. 24hrs of LeMans, IIRC), and invested lots of time and energy in it, to show the world what Germany was capable of (Pre-War, of course). Extremely interesting stuff. I dunno much about eye-talians, except that I love almost everything they produce: baked goods (cannolis!), pastas (lasagna!), wines (Amarone!), cars, motorcycles...ffffuuuuuuuuuu
 
Ze Germans were to 1st to put Nos in their planes, yo!
That schnit is ill
 
Kri$han said:
WRT to manufacturing -and the auto industry- you're absolutely right: most of the ideals, strategies (lean, six sigma and related quality standards) were mostly ideas that were bred here. The problem was adaptation, as North American workers and plants would not accept these strategies. The Japanese welcomed these ideals, accepted them and perfected them. There's a lot to be said for humble diligence, and pride of workmanship.u
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Pretty sure Dr.Deming perfected them.
Japanese adopted them because of necessity, not because they wanted to. They didn't have much after the war.
Much like most of the auto companies that Have adopted those methods for competetive reasons.
Even then, resent events have shown how those idealogies have a way of slipping once the company becomes the biggest seller.
It doesn't hurt when you only allow 4% imports into the country while exporting of yours also.
 
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Look very carefully at the BMW and Mercedes logos and tell me what you see. You might find your answer there.
 
A better win, is to walk downtown Japan, Italy and Germany.... then go to Boston or Detroit, makes you wonder who won the war.
 
Societies fall and rise. What is up will never stay up and will decline and what is low will never stay low and will climb eventually... that is the law of the universe.
 
walk down down Japan, Italy, Germany?
 
I'm pretty sure the intent is to pick any city in those countries, and compare downtown of that city to downtown of practically any city in the USA.

Haven't been to Japan but I've been to Germany and Italy. Crime-ridden slums typical of <insert name of any large US city here> are essentially absent. I'd walk through downtown Munich at midnight with no reservations. Detroit ... not so much.
 
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