• mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    94·
    8 months ago

    destroyed the reputation of American cars being the best made vehicles in the world.

    This was always pure propaganda and if that argument were being made, that downfall would’ve happened way before the '70s. Like, beginning of the 20th century, at latest.

      • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        8 months ago

        We never were. Europe was making production, ICE cars decades before Henry Ford told the world that he invented the process

          • icydefiance@lemm.ee
            21·
            8 months ago

            Ford didn’t even claim that he invented the automobile. However, he did make the manufacturing process a lot faster, and therefore cheaper, so he was the first to sell them at a price that most people could afford.

            He was also a turbo-racist who Hitler saw as an inspiration, but that’s a different subject.