re: #322 Cato the Elder

My dad had an old 250D from the late sixties. When he finally got rid of it after half a million miles, some agent bought it. Said it would be rebuilt and sent to Japan for use as a taxi. Probably still running somewhere in Thailand.

See, that’s quality, my friend. Folk can go on and on all day long about Six Sigma this, or TQM that, but the bottom line, at least for industrial production, is - does the damned thing work, and for how long?

They built better than they needed to, because that was as badly as they could build them at the time.