Posted on 01/08/2007 6:15:51 AM PST by Flavius
I've begun limiting my purchases to cars made in South Korea and Alabama.
The big 3 musta sent some HUGH donations to the DimNC as the MSM is just raving over the Big 3!!!
I'll own a new 07 Chevy m900 pickem up in a week.
Best pick up ever made
It's pretty simple for me - if the VIN number doesn't start with a "J", I don't trust it. ;)
We have a 2001 Dodge Caravan and Chrysler was already telling us in 2005 that certain very routine parts and manuals were Out Of Stock. Screw 'em.
They lost this war back in the early 80's.
Detroit is busy trying to figure out how to make a feminized girly man muscle car with a neutered engine.
THEN try and market it into success.
There are too many left wing politically correct brain deficient suits in the corporate tower for them to ever get out of the stupid box.
big two, Chrysler is a german company now.
Union contracts are tied to the level of the minimum wage.
Minimum wage goes up, automobile construction costs go up.
They MSM needs their leftist buddies in the unions to survive.
This is not about making cars. If it was they would not be making blob shaped least common denominator vehicles. This is about keeping the unions alive.
If Ford and GM go into 11 then the Union contracts go into danger.
The MSM knows exactly why they are suddlenly pro american auto.
Unfortunately for them, American carmakers are now reaping what they sowed in the 1960s and 1970s by utilizing planned obsolescense as their chief design principle. Because of that, the image of most American cars---true or not---is "ugly and will break down and leave me stranded."
Considering a new car/truck has no service history, how can you support such a statement?
Don't forget the ubiquitous Chevy ads by John Commie Mellancamp.
I'll bet the person who managed to con Daimler-Benz into buying this crap-heap of a company must be laughing all the way to the bank by now. What the heck was Daimler-Benz thinking when they decided to buy out the absolute worst car company on Earth? If anything, Chrysler has brought Benz down!
What a curious way to phrase that. So, there is only a 5% difference in satisfaction level, hence the story is not really that important.
That 5% difference is we old goats who remember the exploding Pintos and Fieros,the Corvair (Yes, I had one), the Ford 3.8 V6 with self-dissolving head gaskets, GM V-8's that had pressed-in rocker studs, and other tributes to cost-driven "engineering".
Our new TITAN is getting @ 20mph, go figger??
ATTENTION AMERICANS (remember us?)
Why Be A Traitor--be a patriot, buy an American car for a change!
America (remember America?) was the world leader in industry, military, etc., etc. Why help them continue to bury us!
Get up on yer hind legs and act like Americans even if it is no longer PC to do so, even if you are not!
Amen to that... My next car will probably be another Honda made in Ohio, Toyota made in Kentucky, or a Hyundai made in Alabama :)
If that makes me biased, so be it.
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