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Originally Posted by Big Mike
Most Aussie cars of the 60s and 70s weren't exactly top quality builds either, stoned bogans in Elizabeth or Broadmeadows banging them together much like the AMC story. I'm sure it was the same at Tonsley (for Chryslers) but when I had a tour in 2003 they were all professional adults very proud of the Magna's they were building, quite the contrary to the stoned bogans building VY Commodores that same year.
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I once went on a tour at Mitsubishi when I was in Adelaide back in 01. Very impressed with the level of pride the workers had in the Magna. What struck me was the level of ownership each worker had in their role, cars werent whizzing past on a conveyor belt, instead each employee gave full attention to each car and seem to double check every thing they did. I was watching one guy putting on the chrome strip on the windows and you could tell that he didnt seem happy with how flush it was, it looked fine from where I was, he took off the part and got a texta and wrote something on it, got a new strip and reinstalled it.
Another employee came over and they both discussed the issue, they both ran their hands down the new piece to feel how flush it was against the car. They opened and doors and looked at the welds, they seemed satisfied with the car itself and the new chrome strip fitted perfect. The visiting employee grabbed the defective chrome part and started filling out a form. It was very good to see, I felt like in many other plants the employee would have let the car go with a slightly non flush piece, and let the dealer or warranty take care of it.
I was also told that the Adelaide factory annually won the award for the best paint shop and finish out of the entire Mitsubishi empire. Was a very good plant, sad to see it go.