Umm, last I checked the (Formerly) Big Three were getting their asses kicked by automobiles manufactured in the United States.
I'm sorry for your ignorance, but foreign autos being manufactured and sold in the US send a much greater percentage of profit back to their homleand than do US autos being manufactured anywhere. Here is the bottom line, about 76% of all profits from foreign auto sales goes back into that foreign country's economy, whereas about 36% of all profits from "Detroit" cars goes back into the American economy. Though a Toyota plant may assemble some autos in the US, they source the vast majority of their materials and parts from other countries. When replacement parts are needed for these Toyotas in America, those parts are not not manufactured in the US, but in Japan and elsewhere. This literally forces Detroit to use cheaper materials than its foreign competitors, just to remain competitive enough to stay alive. And that is but one reason why some foreign autos are "better" than US cars. But even this is changing today.
There are other reasons as well, not the least of them being that foreign nations place many restrictions on the importation of US cars, (heavy taxation, foreign protectionist trade laws, etc), while the US does NOTHING to counteract this outrageously unfair trade practice. Detroit isn't nearly as stupid as are the goons, cons and dimwits who run the United States governemnt.