The Honda Accord V6 has just been announced as Australia's Car of the Year. This car is manufactured in Thailand.

There are lots of knockers on this forum, but anybody with half a brain knows that Thai workers and artisans can produce work of the very highest quality, by any measure - and this award simply proves that.

What is the source?

www.drive.com.au/dcoty

The Honda Accord V6 has just been announced as Australia's Car of the Year. This car is manufactured in Thailand.

There are lots of knockers on this forum, but anybody with half a brain knows that Thai workers and artisans can produce work of the very highest quality, by any measure - and this award simply proves that.

Yes but is the top man in the factory here supervicing all this a Thai?

The Honda Accord V6 has just been announced as Australia's Car of the Year. This car is manufactured in Thailand.

There are lots of knockers on this forum, but anybody with half a brain knows that Thai workers and artisans can produce work of the very highest quality, by any measure - and this award simply proves that.

Yes but is the top man in the factory here supervicing all this a Thai?

Probably not. But the point is, that Thai workers are capable of producing world-class goods and services.

Even a trained monkey can be taught to use a spanner.

Yep, the Japanese even taught the Brits how to make good cars and they're working on training up the Yanks, but they're a bit slow on the uptake.

Mazda won two other classes of Car of the Year. The Mazda 2 (think Jazz and Yaris) for small car (2nd year in a row) and the Mazda 3 for the next size up (3rd year in a row). Both cars are imported from Japan with Honda Australia importing the Accord and Jazz from Thailand.

I wonder why Mazda does not have much success here in Thailand against Toyota and Honda. Any ideas ?

Yep, the Japanese even taught the Brits how to make good cars and they're working on training up the Yanks, but they're a bit slow on the uptake.

:D i love it

Yes but is the top man in the factory here supervicing all this a Thai?

Probably not. But the point is, that Thai workers are capable of producing world-class goods and services.

Thai workers can do an excellent job.

But even after decades of observing foreigners running the factories and implementing export standard quality control, the Thais don't seem to be able to jump the cultural hurdle and strive to attain the same level of managerial professionalism.

Yes but is the top man in the factory here supervicing all this a Thai?

Probably not. But the point is, that Thai workers are capable of producing world-class goods and services.

Thai workers can do an excellent job.

But even after decades of observing foreigners running the factories and implementing export standard quality control, the Thais don't seem to be able to jump the cultural hurdle and strive to attain the same level of managerial professionalism.

I think part of the problem is the hierarchical nature of Thai society, the younger must always obey the older. Seniority is no way to run any organisation, but particularly when the times are changing as fast and as radically as they have been for the last 20 years or so.