Posted on 09/15/2019 8:34:09 AM PDT by springwater13
Unions get more stupid by the hour.....
Toyota.
His dad was involved with AMC.
Remember the Gremlin during the Carter years or so?
numbers and percentages can be such a drag sometimes. LOL
Earlier then Carter, I seem to remember them in high school!
Nissan’s pretty good, if you don’t mind dull.
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We’ve a CX-5 and a Miata, both of which have had no problems. Personally, I would touch a GM product with your 10 ft. pole.
Oh Yeah, I had friends that had one.
My Dad bought my older sisters (Purple) Pinto
to save on gas going to and from his job in the city.
I inherited that car and I have blotted out almost all memory of it except
the time my younger sisters entire freshmen volleyball team
piled in when I came to pick her up from school.
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lol I like dull actually.
We needed the CX-5 on Guam because we had enough relatives visiting for a tropical vacation on the cheap that we needed the extra room. When we moved to Houston we moved to the CX-3
I love the CX-3. It has the same 2.0L 148HP engine as the base CX-5 but weighs over 700 pounds less. It accelerates like a low-end sports car and gets comparable fuel mileage to a Yaris. For a vehicle for 2 people to drive around Houston, it is great.
I wish Mazda still made a pickup truck
Ha. Toyota is all I’ll buy any more. I won’t even look at anything else. I’m old. Reliability is the key now.
EcoSport is not sedan but an ugly micro-SUV designed around a Fiesta hatchback platform in Brazil for their domestic market.
Didn’t own it but took a ride and it feels superb for non-luxury vehicle in its class. I personally won’t get it for me for many reasons but I know people who own them and they don’t complain.
Unions don’t stop Germany from being an industrial powerhouse. It isn’t that simple. U.S. industrial output is 2.5 times that of Germany and double Japan.
And we are not “uncompetitive” internationally. U.S. industrial firms dominate the global markets in many categories. Examples follow.
Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s largest manufacturer of heavy construction equipment.
Deere Inc. is the world’s largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment.
U.S. firms dominate the global market for helicopters.
U.S. firms dominate the market for military equipment.
U.S. firms dominate 50% of the global market in semiconductors and 50% of the market for machines to make semiconductors.
U.S. firms dominate the market for IT and software.
U.S. firms are the world leaders in biotechnology and biomedicine.
U.S. firms dominate the market for aerospace equipment.
U.S. firms dominate the market for space satellites.
U.S. firms dominate the market for scientific laboratory machines.
U.S. firms dominate the market for plastics and polymers.
U.S. firms dominate the market for small boats.
U.S. firms dominate the market for medical equipment and apparatus and equipment.
U.S. firms are the world’s largest manufacturers of recreational vehicles such as campers and motorhomes.
U.S. firms rank near the top in chemical production and exports.
U.S. firms control most of the intellectual rights on new medicines and rank as one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of pharmaceuticals.
U.S. firms are rapidly gaining market share in machine tools.
The U.S. is now the world’s largest exporter of electric vehicles.
The U.S. is now the world’s largest exporter of oil and natural gas.
The U.S. still ranks second in automobile production, ahead of Germany and Japan and behind only China.
We are by no means uncompetitive.
My point is China, Mexico, or the Man in the Moon doesn’t hamper our competitiveness or our economy.
We’re good but we could be MUCH better.
THE ANTI-BUSINESS TOTALITARIAN MOSTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - with things like suffocating regulations, taxes, minimum wage and unions that are unconstitutionally forced and protected by the feds - is the root cause of our not rising much higher.
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