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AoK

Williamsport, OH

Won't be a Carbon Motors, to work at, not in Connersville at least.

Misinformation

Indianapolis, IN

TheConcernedCitizens wrote:

Do you think that 40k a unit is a deal?
-- Honestly, yes, because if you buy a Crown Vic, it comes bare for 24k, and by the time you figure you put a laptop, lights, siren, radio system in it, thats 10k without the labor cost of installing it. Also figure that the other lights are put into it, the car is made ready to be a patrol vehicle, is specifically designed to be a patrol vehicle. The vehicle also gets better MPG and the Crown Vic will stop being produced in a couple years. So there needs to be something else.

I believe it is the overall cost of ownership over the lifetime of the car that is a better measure of cost than the upfront cost of acquisition.
If it is true that the diesel engine is "40% more efficient" than traditional engines, this could make a significant impact on the cost to maintain a fleet per year.

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Falmouth, IN

Police departments are RUNNING away from the Crown Vic.

ohyal

Delaware, OH

Maybe so with Carbon but not so for GM, Ford and other auto plants... Most of the general employee's W/ benefits made several thousand more than we did and the insurance was far better than ours... If there are eng. making 90K they are highly specialized... the average eng. has very little formal education and come from supervisor backgrounds or out of 2 yr./4 yr. programs and make on the average 15.00 ph...

Misinformation wrote:

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Not so.
P.Eng start at over $45,000. I know of several that are clearing over $90k per year with just a few years of automotive experience. Add a few more certifications and they be costing you over $100k each. An assembly line will have several P.Eng for quality control and improvement purposes. I presume CM will have an R&D department as well....composing of maybe 20-30 P.Eng.

Chester

Wadsworth, OH

Carbon Motors will get a free building,many
years of tax abatements,with the auto companies
cutting manpower,engineers will be plentiful,
and cheap.I am sure the hourly wages will be
only sligthly above minimum wage.There will not be
a union to contend with,no pensions to have to pay.
Connersville is a very depressed area,that has
been well known by politicians.If the folks
behind Carbon Motors are for real,I don't see how they could fail.

Misinformation

Indianapolis, IN

ohyal wrote:

Maybe so with Carbon but not so for GM, Ford and other auto plants... Most of the general employee's W/ benefits made several thousand more than we did and the insurance was far better than ours... If there are eng. making 90K they are highly specialized... the average eng. has very little formal education and come from supervisor backgrounds or out of 2 yr./4 yr. programs and make on the average 15.00 ph...
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We're using different definitions for "Engineer". When I say engineer, I'm thinking of the 4yr Mechanical Engineering degree from Purdue or Ohio State,...not the 2 year automotive engineer from Ivy Tech. That would explain the difference in our numbers.

Regardless...not that the internet is ever a good source of information, but this link has some info about salary.

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Autom...

ohyal

Delaware, OH

yal, those eng. won't be at this plant except on rare occasions. Most of the engineering will be those who work out bugs, make small modification to meet specs and work to reduce production cost and time and help meet deadlines...the ones you are speaking of are like the "hand" and the ones who will phyically be in the plant are more the "fingers"...they troubleshoot and put in motion the production, equipmemt, modification etc... of the higher engineers... We work with them very closely...

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