Originally posted by Kaw1000
Wtg America....keep buying those foreign cars!!.....when GM and Ford go down kiss our country good-by...If GM goes down so does roughly 900,000
jobs!!...People dont reilize that most profits of foriegn car sales goes back to that country....also....they say"these cars are built in America"these statementS are great publicity for dumb Americans that dont know the inside scoop.
Is it too hard to see that the rubber makers, the plastic workers,metal workers and so many others are losing thier jobs because these forieghn car makers are importing everything to make these cars in America??
This is the same attitude that killed the British Motorcycle industry. It's also the same attitude that--to a certain extent--killed the Mac. Keep buying those US cars, no matter how much they suck. Pretty soon they will suck so much that you have no choice and have to buy foreign. I don't think that this attitude is the only cause of the problem, but it definitely helps it along.
We are seeing this happen already. No one wants american cars anymore. Here on the west coast, I hardly see any american cars at all, seriously. Lots of american SUVs, but the gas crunch is affecting that market even here in rich SoCal. (Detroit was another story, I thought there was something wierd about the place until I figured out it was the almost total lack of imports on the road).
Originally posted by Kaw1000
Don't give me the foreign cars are built better than American cars..everyday I see Chev and ford cars with 150,000 to 250,000 miles and still running strong!!
Poor gas mileage, rattling everywhere, stodgy stale designs. A lot of people care about these things. And the 150K mileage thing applies to US trucks/SUVs (those big blocks run forever)...US cars are falling apart by that time, and no one wants them.
