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Domestic automakers are certainly able to match anything made anywhere. The domestic market demands cheap junk with lots of power and options. Quality obsolescense and dependability are low on the typical Americans list of priorities in a vehicle. They want big V8s with lots of power and options
My heart would love to buy a US car, however, until they convince me there is a US car as good as my Audi, it will be Audi's from here on out. I buy a car and keep it forever. So when I find a car that "does good by me", when I at long last buy another car, I tend to go with the same kind of car.
Nothing but American made at my house ever. I started out buying a used Ford Custom 300 (not many of you ever heard of that, I'll bet) next was a one year old Custom 300 and then a new Ford Fairlane, when they weren't mid-size yet. AFter that I had a 1963 Ford, then a 1964 Ford, followed by a 1966 Ford and then 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, then a 1985 Dodge conversion van that still runs very well but the inside is falling apart from dry rot. My next car was a 1992 Chevy Corsica that one of my sons still drives 80 mile roundtrips to work daily and it has about 180,000. Next we bought a 1999 Chevy Lumina that now has 93,000 and still feels and runs like new. A large part of that one's success is that very few miles are "town" miles.
My wife drives a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee which must be replaced by a Jeep since she can't get in and out of cars or trucks without pain. I love driving that Jeep but it has over 190,000 and won't be around much longer.
My son has a 1970 Chevy stepside that someone pulled out of a hedge row in the 80s and chopped the top and he had it rebuilt but it had too much engine and the old motor mounts just couldn't stay with him. He drives it in parades mostly.
We have never driven foreign at all although both my sons say that unless Dodge makes it they will probably get Tundras the next time.
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Well, I was curious to know whether the political fanatics here had foreign or domestic automobiles considering that our government has been giving taxpayers money away...and will likely give more of our money away.
I have four cars - all foreign. I haven't owned a domestic car since the 1980s.
I thought you were just trying to add to your record of dumbest political threads started by a C-D member
I drive a GMC 2001 high end leathered up full size PU that gets 15mpg. One time from Chicago through snow going 40 mph I got 17.
I keep it up and I do love it. That mileage is a killer though.
My wife drives a VW Jetta Diesel. AT 75+ mph it gets 43 mph. Honest mileage. It runs and handles like a bat outta hell. Top end is governed at 130. Big Bend country, when it had about 15k on it. At 125 is is as solid as my 90 Corvette was. You really have to watch the Jetta, if you do not look at the speedo on good roads you will be at 82mph every time. That is the cars "comfort" speed. This our 2nd Jetta Diesel and this new one is vastly improved. Large enough to have a usable back seat behind a 6 footer, an automatic transmission w/o a torque converter but a computer shifted system with a clutch. Interactive handling so if you go in a slide the car will automatically apply brake to the apprporiate rear wheel to straighten you up. ESTM engine life 500,000+.
The point of all of that espisile is not to promote VW but to ask, "Why cannot I buy an equivilent American car like that?".
Next question that begs to be ask and answered, "Why can I not buy a 1/2 ton PU with diesel power that would get from 24 to 30 mpg?". The market has been screaming for just such a vehicle for almost 15 years. Instead they give us GWV 14,000 lb trucks with HUGE engines, inefficient heavy duty transmissions and they get 14 to 21 mpg and have a $40,000+ price tag on them.
My Church has a Sprinter (Mercedes) van that is huge with a 5 cylinder diesel in it, I can load it up with Blue Haired women push all that air with its non aerodemic shape and still get over 20mph.
Detroit's problem is, was, has been, not producing vehicles the public wants, living down the shi+ quality reputation (not true now) left over from the early 90's and b4 and the corporate staff, CEO, Board of Directors not looking past next quaters profits, this year end bonus, and just how many stock options can be cashed in after manipulating the company stock for a bubble high.
Notice not one place did I lay blame on a bumper fitter, windsheild sealer, muffler placer. This is not the UAW's fault nor any hourly or low level white collar's employees fault, no matter how much Rush, and all the other Union Hating noise making Republican scream and sing. I ask you not to buy the BS.
My mom owns a Honda.
Step dad owns a Toyota and a Honda motorcycle.
I'm stuck with a Saturn.
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