From: m6onz5a on
On Apr 22, 10:02 pm, john <johngd...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> America's love affair with the automobile has a new spark -- a renewed
> affection for U.S.-made cars after a long dalliance with foreign
> automakers.
>
> Slightly more Americans now say the U.S. makes better-quality vehicles
> than Asia does, with 38% saying U.S. cars are best and 33% naming
> autos made by Asian countries, according to an Associated Press-GfK
> Poll.
>
> The survey suggests those numbers are largely fueled by a plunge in
> Toyota's reputation and an upsurge in Ford's. The poll was conducted
> in March, as Toyota was being roiled by nightmarish publicity over its
> recall of more than 8 million vehicles around the globe and
> allegations that it responded sluggishly to safety concerns.
>
> Full article:http://www.freep.com/article/20100422/BUSINESS01/4220312/1210/BUSINES...

I've never owned a foreign car and most likely never will. You do
have to be a bit cautious as some foreign cars are being sold as
American cars, like the Chevrolet Aveo etc.
From: jim beam on
On 04/23/2010 08:02 AM, m6onz5a wrote:
> On Apr 22, 10:02�pm, john<johngd...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> America's love affair with the automobile has a new spark -- a renewed
>> affection for U.S.-made cars after a long dalliance with foreign
>> automakers.
>>
>> Slightly more Americans now say the U.S. makes better-quality vehicles
>> than Asia does, with 38% saying U.S. cars are best and 33% naming
>> autos made by Asian countries, according to an Associated Press-GfK
>> Poll.
>>
>> The survey suggests those numbers are largely fueled by a plunge in
>> Toyota's reputation and an upsurge in Ford's. The poll was conducted
>> in March, as Toyota was being roiled by nightmarish publicity over its
>> recall of more than 8 million vehicles around the globe and
>> allegations that it responded sluggishly to safety concerns.
>>
>> Full article:http://www.freep.com/article/20100422/BUSINESS01/4220312/1210/BUSINES...
>
> I've never owned a foreign car and most likely never will.

oh, but you do. where do you think all the seats, brakes, driveshafts,
engine computers, window motors, instrument clusters, window glass,
wiring harnesses [etc] come from? "domestics" rely heavily on imported
componentry.


> You do
> have to be a bit cautious as some foreign cars are being sold as
> American cars, like the Chevrolet Aveo etc.

yeah. see above. there's nothing quite like a xenophobe unaware of
their reality - they'll even support their political representatives
using their tax dollars to export their own jobs.


--
nomina rutrum rutrum
From: ByTor on
In article <4248efe1-ecd7-4d91-b035-
487e2bf95dfa(a)p35g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, johngdole(a)hotmail.com
says...
>
> America's love affair with the automobile has a new spark -- a renewed
> affection for U.S.-made cars after a long dalliance with foreign
> automakers.
>
> Slightly more Americans now say the U.S. makes better-quality vehicles
> than Asia does, with 38% saying U.S. cars are best and 33% naming
> autos made by Asian countries, according to an Associated Press-GfK
> Poll.
>
> The survey suggests those numbers are largely fueled by a plunge in
> Toyota's reputation and an upsurge in Ford's. The poll was conducted
> in March, as Toyota was being roiled by nightmarish publicity over its
> recall of more than 8 million vehicles around the globe and
> allegations that it responded sluggishly to safety concerns.
>
> Full article:
> http://www.freep.com/article/20100422/BUSINESS01/4220312/1210/BUSINESS01/Americans-want-U.S.-made-cars

Big deal......Even if these surveys are true, which I doubt, the
*agenda* behind all of this is to suspicious. I could give 2 shits about
what kind of car it is it's the *dirty* politics that's the real culprit
here & special interests, business as usual in Washington DC. Especially
with a huge stake in Unions & GM (Governement Motors).
From: SMS on
On 22/04/10 7:02 PM, john wrote:
> America's love affair with the automobile has a new spark -- a renewed
> affection for U.S.-made cars

That's good news. I've always been against all those imports from Canada
and Mexico that GM, Ford, Chrysler, and to a lesser extent Toyota, have
been trying to sell in the U.S..

Give me a U.S. made Ford, Honda, Subara, Hyundai, Toyota, BMW, or
Mercedes, or Kia over those imports from Canada or Mexico any day.

"http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,451002-2,00.html"