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Originally Posted by caligrad
You're equating Detroit = Auto industry and that's sooooooooo no the case at all anymore. If it were, the city wouldn't be in the state its in now.
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This is an absurd comment. The relative state of the city proper has almost nothing to do with auto industry fortunes. The auto industry had its greatest expansion concurrent with the city's steepest decline (the 1960's).
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Originally Posted by caligrad
For Starters. R&D for EVERY? major auto maker is based in Detroit? Chrysler is based in Auburn Hills, 33 miles north of Detroit and Ford is now based out of Dear Born 10 miles west. The Detroit metro but not the actual city of Detroit. The only one dedicated to Detroit is GM. That's as bad as LA trying to claim Disneyland which is also 33 miles away from the city center.
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We're talking Metro Detroit, obviously. 95% of "Detroit" isn't in the city limits. I have no idea what the Disneyland non-sequitur means.
And the fact you're talking about GM, Ford and Chrysler is indicative you're uninformed re. the auto industry. Detroit's importance isn't specifically related to any of these firms. Again, it's the automotive supply chain center of the planet. Has nothing to do with where Ford is HQ; the issue is that the engineering and design jobs are all in Detroit. The vast majority of auto jobs have nothing to do with the Big 3 or the foreign brands; it's the suppliers, designers and engineering firms that provide the bulk of jobs and wealth.
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Originally Posted by caligrad
Not every Global auto supplier has a presence in Detroit. Does it have the densest ? in terms of number of different suppliers? maybe. Largest? most productive? also no.
Detroit boasting the highest concentration of Engineers? Which Engineers are you talking about since there are sub sections... because most lists I've seen of high engineer concentration actually point to the highest concentration being in the Bay area....
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The Bay Area has almost no auto supply chain or engineering presence. It's basically irrelevant. Are you mentioning the Bay Area because of Tesla or something? Tesla is basically a tech firm. It's valued as a tech company and has no local supply chain, really. It aims to one day sell 100,000 vehicles when other firms sell 10 million vehicles every year since forever.
And, yeah, basically every global auto supplier has a sizable Detroit presence. You cannot be a global auto firm without a Detroit presence. The U.S. is, by far, the largest auto market on earth, and almost all the talent is in Detroit. Every German, Japanese and Chinese firm (and those are really the only ones that matter) are heavily invested in Detroit.
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