{"id":13074,"date":"2015-09-23T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13074"},"modified":"2015-09-24T08:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:18:43","slug":"gm-toyota-volkswagen-spokes-on-a-wheel-this-ones-on-top-and-that-ones-on-top-and-on-and-on-it-spins-crushing-those-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/gm-toyota-volkswagen-spokes-on-a-wheel-this-ones-on-top-and-that-ones-on-top-and-on-and-on-it-spins-crushing-those-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"GM, Toyota, Volkswagen. Spokes On A Wheel. This One\u2019s On Top And That One\u2019s On Top, And On And On It Spins, Crushing Those On The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092315_1146_GMToyotaVol1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whenever a car marker reaches the zenith of the auto industry, a scandal brings it down. Steve LeVine and Jason Karaian looked at the history and pointed to a reason why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GM was top dog for 77 years. Then it grew complacent and stopped producing cars that Americans wanted. It was soon overtaken by Toyota and needed a government bailout.<\/li>\n<li>Toyota created trends with the Prius. But soon safety concerns about stuck accelerator pads brought the carmaker down.<\/li>\n<li>Volkswagen grabbed the crown but is now plagued by confirmed accusations about software intended to mislead consumers and government about emission standards.<\/li>\n<li>Automobile manufacturing is a low margin business.<\/li>\n<li>To increase market share companies need to cut price, which means cutting costs, and carmakers seem to have done that by cutting corners and skimping on safety and regulatory features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/507761\/theres-a-very-simple-reason-why-no-carmaker-can-seem-to-rule-the-industry-for-long\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/507761\/theres-a-very-simple-reason-why-no-carmaker-can-seem-to-rule-the-industry-for-long\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever a car marker reaches the zenith of the auto industry, a scandal brings it down. Steve LeVine and Jason Karaian looked at the history and pointed to a reason why: GM was top dog for 77 years. Then it grew complacent and stopped producing cars that Americans wanted. It was soon overtaken by Toyota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092315_1146_GMToyotaVol1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13077,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074\/revisions\/13077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}