Posted on 09/03/2010 5:53:51 AM PDT by Steve495
It’s actually been a long-standing policy for many years, but United Auto Workers leadership have confirmed they will continue to enforce the policy and probably be even more aggressive. This is pure marketing genius I tell you, especially for an organization with a serious image problem.
The Detroit News reports that Kansas City Business Journal reporter James Dornbrook learned this lesson the hard way as he was asked to remove his Toyota Camry from Local 249′s parking lot by an unidentified member. The scribe later wrote that his Camry was built at Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky plant and that the popular midsize sedan contains more domestic content than the Ford F-150.
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Free Republic has it’s share of Big Three only promoters.
They constantly swear off GM and Chrysler for ever and proudly claim they will buy Fords. Some even still use the anachronistic “riceburner” term. Automotive enlightenment has yet to come to many besides the UAW.
(Mexico and Canada did not qualify which was why Ford didn't make #1)
ford does not have a plant in windsor....either oakville or st. thomas
I'll go you one better. Back in the early-mid 80s, a guy I worked for had a brand new General Motors pickup. On one side, the badging was for Chevrolet, on the other, the badging was GMC. Even the interior had both sets of emblems (the steering wheel had the Chevrolet logo, while the dash had the GMC version). The only explanation was that someone forgot to switch the trim on one side of the line. The truck was supposed to be a Chevrolet, and the VIN proved it out, but the badging was all screwed up. The saddest part is nobody cared.
They’ve done this for years. I called on a Ford plant years and years ago and you could only park in their parking lot if you drove a Ford. If you drove a Chrysler or a GM you had to park across the street and if you drove a foreign car...no matter where it was made...you had to park down the hill in a lot in the ghetto and walk a mile to the plant. They were vindictive bastards.
Foreign car makers: Building the reliable cars that unionized Americans refuse to build.
XM and Sirius merged their programming -- I think you can get every channel on either system (although they may be different channel numbers).
Are there still channels only available on one?
Mine is the 2000 Sportage. Runs well, for ten years......................
No you can’t get Quinn and Rose. Also the music channels are better on XM. You also get Alex Jones on the weekend on XM. XM is better.
Good New thanks.
The Hyundai Santa Fe is the sister car to the Sorento. I like my brand new 2010 version, but the 4 banger is slightly underpowered. We recently put over 2,000 miles on it on a trip and only averaged about 25.5 MPG with the 4 cylinder and FWD (not the AWD version). Disclaimer, we were loaded (four passengers and the back was packed), and the trip was a lot of hills and passing slower vehicles on two-lane roads (kicking down a couple of gears). The V-6 would likely have done just as well on this trip for mileage.
In all, we really liked the car. Plus, the little covered storage bin in the bottom of the back can hold a home defense shotgun (with extra skeet barrel and full stock), an SKS - with TAPCO 922 compliance stock, a Winchester 94 carbine, a Ruger 10/22 with scope, some ammo, targets, hearing and eye protection, and a .40 cal pistol in the box. It closed down tight and you'd never know the stuff was in there. My buddies were impressed.
A Chevy Suburban built in Silao GTO Mexico, or a Hyundai built in Montgomery Alabama USA?
A PT Cruiser built in Toluca Mexico (the PT stands for the P car built in Toluca)or a Honda built in Marysville Ohio?
I was born an raised in Detroit and I'm an Automotive Engineer, and I gave up trying to settle this one years ago.
Oops sorry, lack of sleep with new pup.
The V6 is too much fun to drive. I just could not go back to a I4.
Just as “tolerant” as their lib fellow-travelers, I see.
We DID? Want an autograph?
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