I was just reading something about the Ford Focus the other day... I forget where, but it was online. I followed a link to a news site from Fark. From there, I followed another link, to another link, to an article about Fords quality problems as of late.

I don't remember everything, but what I was reading stated that the Ford Focuses made down in the Mexico plant were of a much higher quality and reliability than the Ford Focuses actually made here in America. They use a different parts supplier for the Mexico plant. Much better parts. Pretty much all of the faulty Focuses and the most of the recalls came from the American plants. (Which use crappier parts because they have to pay the workers more... Go unions!) Also, the Mexico plants use more robots than people for certain assembly jobs... While here in the states the unions make sure that people are doing the jobs that machines could be doing better, faster, and of a higher quality.

Was an interesting read.