Posted on 06/20/2011 6:36:40 PM PDT by KevinDavis
A lot of words have been written in the past few post-tsunami weeks about the negative impact of the disastrous tragedy on the short-term future of Japanese cars in the U.S. market. In parallel, many articles proclaim this to be a “historical window of opportunity” for the “Detroit Three,” now able to deliver to waiting customers an abundant supply of new vehicles while, at Toyota, Honda and Nissan, the cupboard is bare.
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I love my Forester. It has almost 250,000 miles. I hope to get many more before I have to trade.
Ford is a different issue because they did not take the bailout. I see boycotting GM/Chrysler forever as a moral imperative, while boycotting Ford is an optional political decision that I completely understand.
Exactly. The straight 6-4.0/4.2 design is proven, with tons of aftermarket parts available. Just feed it fresh oil every 4 to 6k miles. I added a K&N washable air filter and 2” pipe, and get 23-25 mpg on the highway. The drive train is decent in the 90’s and early 2000’s vehicles, the bodywork is great, interior well done ... its a vehicle that, if you don’t trash it off-road, will easily do 200-250k miles before needing anything even resembling serious work.
Very nice ride. Heck of a car.
Other than trucks and whatnot for hauling my go fast boats and other toys I've been going German recently. AMG Mercedes and 911. I recently drove a buddies GT500 and found it to be an awesome vehicle. He has something else called an Ariel Atom. That thing is insane!
The summary demonstrates that Lutz wasn't much of a "car guy".
"Car guys" don't count on political correctness and European-style gas taxes to sell their cars.
Lutz is a fraud.
Actually GM and Chrysler bailouts were chickenfeed compared to the banks such as CitiCorp and Goldman and Wall St and AIG? They should have all been sent into bankruptcy where the shareholders lost all their wealth like GM, but instead were and are still being handed US taxpayer obligations by the trainloads without producing anything of tangible value for the USA.
I didn’t support any bailout but the banks should have been knee capped, bankrupted and recapitalized by Govt. and then sold off and proceeds returned to taxpayers instead of going to banksters and their management.
You mean the 300 that was sold from one dealership to another. < /s>
I'm with you on that. I also closed my Citi and B of A accounts and no longer accept checks drawn on those banks. I take corruption seriously and do not deal with crooks. Still, the discussion was cars, so I stuck to that sector of modern liberal corruption.
Auto union, ugh! I rather drive a Boeing.
Glad that we picked up our latest Nissan while we could. It’s our 4th one - we had two Nissan vans which we sold after 150K miles each and one Sentra that we drove into the ground - had it for 18 years of basically trouble free driving.
Shelby 2012 GT500 Super Snake 800 horsepower Mustang - approximately $100,000.
Foolish me! When you said ‘vette, I thought you were talking about a Chevette...LOL
The company I work for just leased me a brand new, (and I didn’t think they even made them anymore), Lincoln Town Car.
I can’t believe how nice this car is and I’ve driven Town Cars for many years. This thing is just incredible, and it’s getting 28 MPG on the road. It’s just amazing.
Really? I feel like I got my money’s worth. With 400 factory HP, it’s much too fast for most of the roads that I ever drive on (186 mph/12.7 sec 1/4 mile), it sounds like a beast, it gets 30 mpg on the highway, and it commands attention wherever I go. I have put about 40,000 miles on it without any significant maintenance problems. I suspect that if I take care of it, it will outlive me. It’s awesome. I love it.
I so much agree. Let's see, my last car and truck came from the rather blueish state of Michigan, but my wife's last car came from a more reddish state of Indiana.
I think my next truck will come from San Antonio --can't get much redder than that!
Want to play a game of guessing brands?
Indiana would be Subaru of America. Can’t speak for the others, but my Sube Legacy GT wagon still has the “Proudly Handcrafted By Americans In Indiana” sticker on the rear side glass, right beside the etched “AWD.”
People from Michigan, Indiana, or Texas?
I think I associate more with the latter two than I do with the first.
I guess that may also be correct, but my wife bought a Camry on her last auto-outing.
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