What if even with all those breaks they still didn't want to buy their cars?
Do Honda, Toyota and Nissan have to abide by the same cafe standards Bush/congress voted in last year for the big 3?
Besides that question - let them fail. I was raised a ford girl but my next truck is going to be a Toyota
The final straw was when the windshield leaked on my new 2003 Chevy Suburban. That leak was never corrected properly by several dealers and created mildew, and a wide range of electrical problems as a result of the moisture inside the cabin. I had to battle them for over two years and never got it resloved. The last attempt to resolve it, they offered me the number of the dispute arbitration panel, I told them that I already had that number, and it was the same number as the Toyota dealer down the street. They hung up on me, and I traded that POS for a Toyota Land Cruiser the following day.
Screw them....wouldn't buy water from them if I was on fire.
This is a pointless exercise. Average American is 14 trillion in personal debt (maxed out on credit card and equity loans), and feds are 9 trillion in debt. Wall Street blew up our real cash with leveraging and derivatives, and Main Street is going into survival mode. If feds give every American $ 5000 to buy a car, they would simply use it to pay down their credit cards or sock it a way anticipating being laid off. Americans are flat broke and do not plan to buy big items or take on more debt. Figure the coming depression will last atleast ten years. The next crisis will be in commercial real estate as malls lose tenants as retailers cut down and close stores and huge defaults on credit cards as Americans get laid off after Christmas.