[Proud2BeRight]

After 1 1/4 million miles in my American cars, I have decided which vehicles best serve my needs for the money. I see a real bias in the media that is pro-riceburner and anti-American car. I will compare my GM vehicles, past and present with any Jap car in their class for longevity, maintainability, cost, reliability, comfort, and certainly looks.

Are you a member of the PC police? Offended by the words "riceburner" and "Jap car"? Oh brother!

[Spktyr]

Ooooh, 1.25 million miles. Wow.

I have more than that spread over three Jaguars. I probably have a good 5 million miles in my logbook.

Please, do, list your GM vehicles.

[wordsofearnest]

UAW?

[-YYZ-]

Not offended. Annoyed by your use of them in every post. Makes me discount your posts, because you seem to be illogical in your hatred of "Jap" cars.

As far as the cars go, well, you're entitled to your opinion. I can tell you that I didn't get my bad opinion of American cars from the media, but from my own experiences, and those of people I have known. Are the Japaense perfect? No, of course not. They've produced some real dogs over the years. And the American car makers do some things well. As I've said before I think that GM and Ford have better corrosion protection than the Japanese (and maybe anyone else, although old Mercedes seem to hold up quite well). And they'll give you a bigger, if somewhat less advanced technologically, motor for your money. And until fairly recently they were the only ones making a really decent-sized affordable family car. And they're the only ones selling affordable rear-drive cars (300C, Crown Vic, Mustang) in this market. But I continue to be leery of their quality issues, not based on things I read, but again based on my own experiences and those of people I know.

I'm Canadian, btw, so buying "domestic" really doesn't mean anything to me - all the profits go to companies based in other countries. All the major players have plants in Canada, although my Honda Accord was built in the US.