Sure, but the article is about a new American car company, and we are discussing problems with production ramp. People often use GM or Ford for comparison, and I'm pointing out the silliness.
Most of the EU based car manufacturers are even older than GM / Ford.
By volume, the largest EU car manufacturer is Volkswagen, which barely existed before WWII. The other German manufacturers also had to start from scratch.
Volkswagen was founded May 28, 1937, and they were the fuhrer's favorite. That's still 66 years head start. I bet if I gave you a 66 year head start in virtually anything you could probably do a better job than I will when I start.
You've not disproved the underlying meaning of my statement really. I don't see why people are downvoting it as the content is sensible.
Volkswagen was used for war manufacturing pretty much as soon as they started and never manufactured commercial passenger vehicles until years after the war.
If you made that point about Daimler or BMW you might have a point, because they actually made cars before being turned into Nazi war manufacturers and bombed into oblivion, but Volkswagen was never anything but a Nazi war manufacturer until the end of the war.
> You've not disproved the underlying meaning of my statement really.
What, that learning how to manufacture large numbers of automobiles is a lost art from the 19th century? The underlying meaning of your statement is absolute garbage because there's half a dozen East Asian companies that figured it out since 1960, some of them even since the mid-1980's.
> The construction of the new factory started in May 1938 in the new town of "Stadt des KdF-Wagens" (modern-day Wolfsburg), which had been purpose-built for the factory workers.[15] This factory had only produced a handful of cars by the time war started in 1939. None were actually delivered to any holder of the completed saving stamp books, though one Type 1 Cabriolet was presented to Hitler on 20 April 1944 (his 55th birthday).[15]
"ha ha ha Tesla is so bad at logistics, they suck so much! Look how much better everyone else is!"
Imagine how much better I'd be at literally anything if you gave me a > 100 year head start!