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Originally Posted by Mudbud5
Yes I would. ... the city was beautiful ...
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But that's impossible - it's Detroit. Haven't you been following the media
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Just no one drive a non American made car in Detroit and you should be good...
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What people don't realize is that Detroit is really the world-wide center of the automotive industry - not just for the American companies. Virtually every major automotive company (OEMs and parts suppliers) have large engineering centers in the area. Within 10 miles of where I'm sitting now are large (~500-1000 engineer) R&D centers for Hyunday/Kia, Toyota, and Nissan. I read an article a few days ago which stated that even though many American companies are outsourcing to low cost countries like India and China, that Indian and Chinese auto companies are now outsourcing to the Detroit area in order to leverage the experience and talent pool. Changan (China) recently opened a tech center about a half mile from my office and Mahindra (India) just announced that they are opening a large R&D center in Troy (northern suburb).
Because of this you see plenty of non-American cars around here. I got my first engineering job at a major tier 1 supplier working on all of the Toyota projects and as a result I drive a Camry. Yeah, you have some union die-hards with the anti-non-American bumper stickers, but they're not going to do anything to anybody.
What most people don't realize is that even though Detroit has the reputation as the blue-collar factory worker town, there are relatively few auto factory jobs around here any more. The vast majority of the automotive work around here is actually white-collar (engineering, science, management, accounting, marketing, etc.) There are literally (figuratively, actually) a bazillion engineering jobs here related to the auto industry, which largely explains why FIRST has been so strong here for so long. That also means that because so many people are employed by foreign companies that there much less attitude about foreign cars.