If you havent already : Go and see the Welding robots and the painting robots welding and painting a car at Mazda's main web site. The quicktime movies are more thrilling than Starwars. l lot of robots working on a car in harmony .. and at the same time.

www.e.mazda.co.jp

The only problem is that some cars made are still lemons.

Yeah, the ones built in AMERICA (US and Canada). A Mazda6 built in Japan is not comparable with one built in the US. Do you think car-making it's like making an apple pie or a hamburguer?, NO!. Germans and Japaneses do know how to put a car together. I think cars should be built on the manufacturer's origin country. Quality is the key and there are lots of Americans, especially the ones at the car makers' plants, who don't a have a clue what quality and reliability is. You can't expect a good product if it was made with cheap and low quality parts like GM, Ford and Chrysler do.