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Originally Posted by ronald mcretard
So it's a conspiracy among enemies that don't mind giving each other head starts in the hybrid market? Give me a break.
GM wasn't smart enough to get into the small hybrid market like Honda and Toyota, and the Japanese are now behind in the hybrid technology department (although still far ahead in sales obviously). Simple as that.
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They are only 'enemies' when they compete against one another...even then it's only in the minds of the faithful. GM and Toyota are partners in one plant; GM and Ford in developing the 6 spd tranny as were GM, MB and BMW in developing the 2-Modes.
When it suits the various companies greater purposes they play nice together and they're collaborators.
You don't think it's less than pure coincidence that none of the 4 major hybrid makers compete against one another in these early years. Heck when Toyota and Ford found out that they were developing the same system ... they didn't sue each other or paper the patent office to exclude the other ... they exchanged licenses and just kept on developing in parallel.
This is the way Big Business is done very often. I saw it in my former career, steel. In the field all the big players competed tooth and nail against each other but in the Executive Suites they met all the time to 'discuss' a multitude of cooperative ventures.