Originally posted by Tiger
Not sure what can save US car manufacturers.
You take $28K, you can buy a low level US car, with poor reliability and high maintence costs and low fuel mileage
Or, you go get the high end Toyota, with low maintence caost, excellent reliability, and out standing fuel mileage,
This is not the 80s anymore, as bad as American car makers are, the cars themselves are not all that bad, just not very interesting.
After the experiences I have had with Toyotas I would never consider another one, and it was a 2000 camary and 99 Tacoma that were both total piles of garbage, hell the camary required 2000$ in repairs while UNDER warranty because toyota claimed the strut towers were a wear and tear part. Given the choice between the 96 olds acheva I had and that camery I would chose the olds, or walking.
The toyota had less then 15k on it at the time.
You want to talk about Toyota some more? Go to an FJ forum and read about how the inner fenders are ripping on them, and how many dealers are ****ing over the owners. Nice design work there, and from what I read its NOT just modified ones, infact I saw a survey and the majority of rigs with the issue were dead stock.
My Jeep has been more reliable then either toyota and my Bro in laws Xterra. (that he traded in on a jeep after a tech told him the suspension was messed up and they couldn’t figure out why it was drinking 4 qaurts of oil in under 1k miles. Even AFTER a short block swap.)
My 2002 Chevy truck has NEVER had a single problem.
I am not saying American cars are better, just that you can get a ****ty lemon from them all, and they are ALLOT closer in quality then people give them credit for.
Most people I know who bag on American cars only have not owned one in years.
As for if this guy could save GM or Ford? Maybe, but he would have to fire allot of management and do something about the unions and legacy labor costs.
Can you still up and fire all your people and hire them back non union?
