Re: I would gladly fly on the MAX
That wasn't unusual with 1970s cars, at least in the UK. Lancia Gamma and Alfasud were notorious for rusting, not to mention anything from British Leyland. One plant supposedly had the paintshop in a separate building from the chassis line. So bare-steel cars were loaded onto open trucks and driven over to be painted. In all weathers.
Another famous BL quality-control issue was when they got a new CEO, and issued him with a Jaguar XJS fresh off the production line as a company car. He went out to look at it, and it was a different colour at each end.
It's a long time since I've seen cars with the little red spots on from rust treatment (red-oxide primer over the rust?). All cars seemed to have a few when I was growing up.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
