主题：【纪事】看到山猫这一段，差点笑翻 -- 昔杨今雨

You have to check the original contract. Like Satana at Shanghai. Before 95, Satana did not have any permission to even change some screws.The controlling stock does not automatically guarantee you have the freedom to develop a new product by your own.

1) AMC and Chrysler did not provide financial support or techinical expertise for any R&D.

2) Beijing Jeep is run at 老式国有大企业。 The focus is on revenue or even production, not on profit.

3) The product sucks. The quality is terrible. The entry point for technical rennovation is bad. The Jeep in Toledo is coming out from 1940s streaming line. AMC brought the same technics to Beijing Jeep. What can you expect Beijing Jeep to learn?

4) Government is only view that as cash cow.When they did make some money, the profit went to tax, or expense, not for R&D or marketing.

I also know someone worked at Beijing Jeep production.

The manufacturing is rather inefficient. The supply chain sucks. The training and design is totally style (老式国有大企业). The production is almost like handmade. It is amazed to see it can actually survive more than 10 years. They should had died much earlier.