Clayton Christensen.

From rebar to transistor radios to cars, the Clayton Christensen story continues. Right here! On YOUR Public Occurrences:

“Toyota did not come to America with Lexuses,” Christensen said. “They came with this rusty little subcompact in the sixties that they called the Corona. And then they went from the Corona to the Corolla, Tercel, 4Runner, and then a Lexus.

THAT is certainly true. Toyota ate Detroit's lunch, hoo-doggie. And the quality of their first cars was crap-crap-crap, just like the first transistor radios, just as Christensen's disruption theory says. But: the transistor radio was a new technology, of course the quality was going to be crap; auto-making was not a new technology...For what that's worth.