Originally Posted by REVIT93RX7
I think cars should be built on a demand basis. In the UK, you typically order a car you do not buy one off the lot. Many reasons exsist for this but I think it is a good approach. The sales channel is not clogged with models people do not want. An advantage to this is you actually can determine what people want to buy. You waist far less cash and you do not need to have a fire sale at the end of the year.
REVIT93RXT: Great post an ideas. I think that would not work in an American consumer system. American consumerism wants on demand services. The ability to order cars and essentially have them hand built causes issue of production. Business wise they have to be able to bulk order material from suppliers. This causes issues from the most basic supply side. If Chrysler would impliment this style of production it would require a great amount of coordination between every single supplier. They would have to nail down an aproximate production figure if off, they have wasted a large amount of funds on parts that they have to recycle that may not fit within the design context of other cars, or they are unable to meet production demands. I think rather than doing a production on demand basis moving to lower levels of production and a greater amount of parts bin build processes would benefit the big 3. You would want to accentuate the parts bin models with different pieces of trim so your Chrysler wouldnt feel like a Jeep or your SAAB didnt feel like a Saturn. But this would allow greater flexibility in my opinion.