If there was ever a moment in time to have your supply capacity kneecapped, this would be it because everyone’s broke.
>> “There is Hyundai and Kia..” <<
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How far can you pull your 6000 lb trailer behind your Kia?
My vette seems to be holding up pretty well.
I’d rather just wait.
In any case, I like to buy a car and drive it into the ground before I get the next one. I’m still driving a 1999 Subaru Outback, which does well in the snow and dirt roads. And we just bought my youngest son a 1997 Subaru, which is actually in rather better shape than mine.
and VW, Mercedes, Volvo, Porsche, and all the other European manufacturers!
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I will keep my Diesel Dodge Dually.
And let’s not forget, we are ALL PAYING for the “magnificent” Chevy Volt — all 300 of them that have sold or whatever.....
Yes, the Japanese is run on s**t. No it’s the new meat I’m thinking of. My bad.
Every “American” car that I like is made in Mexico. The “foreign” cars that I like are actually made in places like Kentucky, South Carolina, California, and Ohio. Go figure.
The USA is in decline because many Americans cut their nose off to spite their face and have forgotten that it is in all of our interests to put the economic interests of our fellow countrymen first, before the Asians or any others.
Locale and country have much more to do with purchasing decisions, not ideology. I make it a priority to buy products made or grown by Americans, just as I also put buying from local businesses in my jurisdiction a priority. In the end it helps me and my neighbors.
I’ll keep my Shelby GT500, thank you very much.
GM kind of queered the deal for me with their diesels. Ford showed me what they could do with a 1967 Falcon with some unique properties. One of them was that the headliner would collapse when one was going about 70 mph obscuring your vision. I don’t even remember the Chrysler model, but I didn’t get it off the lot.
My first Honda Civic lasted for 358,000+ miles before the head gasket failed. Since then it has been Japanese cars all the way. My 1995 Acura has 258,000+ miles on it. I hope to get to 350,000 before it rusts away.
My Honda Civic does quite well. Well priced and apportioned, gets great mileage and has a terrific resale value. I have never had any “big three” vehicle that held value worth squat, and some were downright lemons.
Were I to buy a big three auto, it would be a truck. F-150.
My ‘97 Jeep Cherokee will keep getting new brakes, suspension, belts, tires, hoses and any other necessary parts until it falls into dust. Even if I end up putting 2 or 3K some years into it, that is preferable to spending money for a new vehicle.
Interesting how GM had to shutdown some line because parts weren’t coming into the US from Japan after the earthquake/tsunami. One wonders.
Lutz said the American auto industry's plunge into bankruptcy was more down to tunnel vision from business school graduates than union greed. He beats on the media for favoring foreign cars over domestic ones and politicians for not having the guts to introduce a European style gas tax, and he lauds Volkswagen's leader Ferdinand Piech for his tough but successful management style.
Lutz is also justly proud of perhaps his last big decision before he ended his career at GM - forcing the revolutionary Chevrolet Volt past the doubters.
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110614/OPINION03/106140318/Lutz-says-business-theorists-hurt-auto-industry-more-than-UAW#ixzz1Ps2dT56F