Robert Farago's The Truth About Cars is an online journal (for which your publisher writes de temps en temps) where the "truth" is often portrayed from the writer who has seen through the lens, darkly. Morbidity abounds @ TTAC where there's been a "GM death watch" and a "Ford death watch" series for some time now.

TTAC writer Bob Elton has just today published a Ford piece which asks us to contemplate the gross efficiencies of the Ford bureaucracy - a company whose very own hard-nosed founder practically invented the efficient assembly line.

And on which aspect of FoMoCo does Mr. Elton focus? Seat tracks and their assembly. It's actually an interesting read, though the suppliers in question go strangely unnamed.

Read it here.