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by Gibbon1 2316 days ago
Reminds me of an observation about used cars. The big three observed that people only kept their cars for a couple of years and used that at their target for planned obsolescence. Japanese who had a rep for bad quality just concentrated on producing as best quality as they could.

The result is GM's resale value is terrible. Where Toyota's used cars sell at a premium. The result is Toyota can charge a premium and GM cannot. That premium is Toyota pocketing the future higher resale value.