"With all due respect.....what did you mean by "crappy car thing"..what automaker are u supporting??"
What I mean is most of the newer cars the US makers are building are, to put it simply, crap.
Does stuff like the Pontiac Aztek ring a bell? Or, how about how GM has totally wrecked the once-proud Cadillac division into little more than a Lexus-ripoff? Heck, if not for the Escalade, Cadillac would likely have followed Oldsmobile into oblivion. That's quite an "accomplishment" of sorts--taking a name that dominated its market for 50 years and running it into the ground in barely a decade. It takes incompetence on a monumental scale to acheive those kinds of results!
I support our companies, but not mindlessly so. I won't waste money on overpriced products that are ugly and unappealing. If GM and Ford want to run themselves into the ground, then there's nothing I can do about it except remember better times.
I drive a Buick. It's ten years old. I'd love to buy something newer, but the newer cars are just crap. Practically every new car on the market represents a DOWNGRADE over what I drive now in every attribute that matters to me. I refuse to buy a foreign model, so I just buy older cars instead. I'm happy with the Buick, and I saved a heck of a lot of money.
J_A_B