# Brock Yates (Cannonball Run, Car & Driver) on the Big Three Automakers

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [May 2, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/brock-yates-cannonball-run-car-driver-on-the-big-three-automakers/67189 "2009-05-02T22:44:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/brock-yates-cannonball-run-car-driver-on-the-big-three-automakers/67189/1 "2009-05-02T22:44:25Z")

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_"Detroit can’t build small, fuel-efficient cars to compete with the better-engineered and popular cars coming from Europe and Japan._

American auto executives are a myopic and insular group unable to confront the challenges of a changing auto industry.

The Big Three, “once the industrial pride of the nation,” are “declining rapidly in size and influence” and it’s possible they can’t be saved.

This is what automotive legend Brock Yates wrote in 1983."

[http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/658653.html?imw=Y](http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/658653.html?imw=Y)

Article written by a friend of mine.

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**Author:** ![Violator](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/violator/32/7278_2.png) [@Violator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Violator)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/brock-yates-cannonball-run-car-driver-on-the-big-three-automakers/67189/2 "2009-05-02T22:53:32Z")

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very interesting

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**Author:** ![heylick](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/heylick/32/5290_2.png) [@heylick](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/heylick)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/brock-yates-cannonball-run-car-driver-on-the-big-three-automakers/67189/3 "2009-05-02T23:23:50Z")

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yeah i read that.  
solid article.

Yates is the whos who in the automotive industry.

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**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/brock-yates-cannonball-run-car-driver-on-the-big-three-automakers/67189/4 "2009-05-03T08:55:50Z")

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if you actually read the book, he refrences this car numerous times- the 1983 Honda Accord! this is my roomates car and is by far the slowest, yet most reliable gas sipping beater i have ever encountered

![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/jettagli1991/honda.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/jettagli1991/honda.jpg)

:oldschool: