02-14-2008
|
#1 |
|
|
Re: Consider buying American!
snip > > Here are some American models recommended in the 2007 Consumer Reports > Annual Auto Issue: > snip Consider how few inexpensive and/or fuel efficient cars are on the list. If Detroit wants to win back buyers, they'd better start building cars young buyers can afford to buy and operate. |
|
02-14-2008
|
#2 |
|
|
Re: Consider buying American!
<dimndsonmywndshld@yahoo.com> wrote: >If Detroit wants to win back buyers, they'd better start building cars >young buyers can afford to buy and operate. It may be a regional thing but around here "young buyers" seem to want muscle cars and pickup/SUVs. They even "rice" their japanese econoboxes to try to make them look fast. I will say the japs brought up the level of the game considerably in the 80s but the americans responded with a better product that they had been building. The reality is we went into the 2 decades after WWII building cars like the Sherman tanks the detroit lines were designed to build. They were tough and easy to fix but quality was not a design factor. The japs got to start with a clean slate since we blew up all of their tank factories. They were coming up with all the innovation. In the 70s and early 80s detroit responded by putting velour seats and fuzzy padded headliners in the tanks but not much else changed. Since then they have risen to the challenge and reliability has taken a huge leap forward. Chrysler is offering a lifetime warrantee on powertrains and 100,000 mile warrantees are out there with the others. The gap has certainly closed, some say it is also because the jap quality is falling a bit. You can also see a similar history in outboard engines for boats |
Linear Mode
