[JamesP81]

He warned that America's trade deficit - $160bn (£84bn) in 2005 - needed to be reduced, and that Americans could not continue buying so many foreign goods forever.

If domestic cars would last as long as Japanese cars, I'd want to buy American. If Japanese cars had the styling appeal of domestic cars, I'd want to buy Japanese. There's no winning.

[Greenpees]

Well, my '92 Thunderbird, with 175K miles on the O.D. says that the United States does build a good car. We simply have to stop believing the hype about forgien cars.