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lars63 wrote:the loss of jobs to over seas competitor's Japan for instance and all their pesky cars that destroyed our car industry cause no one wanted to buy American

Maybe people would buy American if Americans were capable of building a car worth buying.

If my memory serves me correctly the big reason America started buying those pesky cars from Japan was the gas mileage not their durability

Most Japanese cars in North America are made in North America. It's not that they're moving all manufacturing jobs overseas, it's that there is a lot more automation.

lars63 wrote:If my memory serves me correctly the big reason America started buying those pesky cars from Japan was the gas mileage not their durability

Except American cars tend to depreciate faster and have horrible quality control.

shaft wrote:A lot of those problem have to do with economic globalization and the rise of technology.

wrong

obsidian wrote:Most Japanese cars in North America are made in North America. It's not that they're moving all manufacturing jobs overseas, it's that there is a lot more automation.

The Japanese model built in Canada/USA/Mexico will always be inferior to the same model built in Japan. If you want Japanese, make sure it's from Japan. Same goes for European.

No one on this continent builds cars well.

i am stalking a new gm now for quite a wile

very low stock in my area and i am waiting for the right one.

my current 2010 tahoe i only put 80000 km on it since then and ive never had a problem, changed a daytime running bulb, new michelins and ab
nd a battery thats it, but even tho it has been garaged since 2010 and only has 80k i want new because ego

Captain Mazda wrote:
Maybe people would buy American if Americans were capable of building a car worth buying.

ding.
protip: don't blame your shortcomings on others, try to improve instead.

Captain Mazda wrote:

obsidian wrote:Most Japanese cars in North America are made in North America. It's not that they're moving all manufacturing jobs overseas, it's that there is a lot more automation.

The Japanese model built in Canada/USA/Mexico will always be inferior to the same model built in Japan. If you want Japanese, make sure it's from Japan. Same goes for European.

No one on this continent builds cars well.

I was working on three hundred thousand with my Plymouth Voyager when I quit driving, it was a 93, only thing that went wrong with it in all that time was a timing belt, I more than got my money worth.

You mean those Voyagers that would suddenly burst into flames or lose power steering? Also the timing belt on those things would slide off more often than a fat yank's sweatpants at a donut convention. Our family car was a 1998 Caravan and it needed a new transmission, power steering pump, and drive belt almost on a regular basis.

And that was supposed to be the reliable version of the Voyager...rofl

Face it, no one with any real knowledge of cars would ever buy American in the consumer or even luxury class.

You must have been a hard driver, don't know what to tell you, mine was very dependable.