Buying American Cars What Does It Mean?

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With parts coming from everywhere, does "Buying American" have much meaning anymore? Is quality and price the bottom line?

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#6244 of 7263 Re: The Slide continues... [lilengineerboy] by imidazol97 Sep 26, 2008 (8:07 am)
Replying to: lilengineerboy (Sep 26, 2008 6:40 am) .Can you pull out where it said that, I just saw where it said it went up by 500 billion every year since 2003
#6245 of 7263 Re: One other note [grbeck] by m1miata Sep 26, 2008 (8:19 am)
Replying to: grbeck (Sep 26, 2008 7:23 am) Perhaps Ford should have taken the Fusion/Milan RWD? I know - I know, too expensive to go the extra mile there. The new Mazda6 is pretty good looking. The Milan, IMHO, is still one of the better shapes, even with the big butt syndrome of today's auto. Anyone seen an article with a comparison between Fusion/Milan and Malibu/Epsilon Gang? From the earlier photos of the interior on the Malibu, I thought it was gonna be something really special - very cool. In reality, it is pleasing enough, but nothing so great as to make the car a winner over car XXX. The back end of the New Malibu looks similar to the old Verona Suzuki, and thus uninspiring. I would rate the New Malibu as a good effort to be in the same league as the rest. Too bad it did not have an original look. The Ford Fusion/Milan is a better effort in this respect. Would be fun to be in the style wars between domestic and the rest, but alas a more blended look seems to be accepted. We are living in the age of mediocrity. Just look at the big four TV programming efforts. Do you see any shows like the Ed Sullivan hour which had the best of the best talent? No Dean Martin Show. And look at local to national choices when we vote. And the products of crap from China, oh my! Recall a time when a lamp switch worked for a couple decades instead of a couple months? I go back enough years to recall as a kid the days when an American car was a work of art. Those be the 60's. People laughed at this funny VW bug thing. Now the big three laugh no more. Those ugly little cars, like a VW or an egg shaped little Subaru, were easily dismissed by GM and Ford. Ford & GM imitation cars date way back. The Corvair, second gen. would be kinda a neat car, if it had survived. Well maybe??? Replies to this message: andre1969 (Sep 26, 2008 8:21 am) m1miata (Sep 26, 2008 8:29 am) lilengineerboy (Sep 26, 2008 9:36 am)
#6246 of 7263 Re: One other note [m1miata] by andre1969 Sep 26, 2008 (8:21 am)
Replying to: m1miata (Sep 26, 2008 8:19 am) Perhaps Ford should have taken the Fusion/Milan RWD? I know - I know, too expensive to go the extra mile there. Well they make an AWD version of the Fusion/Milan, in addition to the FWD. So I guess a dedicated RWD shouldn't be too hard to do. Replies to this message: m1miata (Sep 26, 2008 8:29 am)
#6247 of 7263 Re: 630 billion spending bill presented to congress contains... [mcdawgg] by m1miata Sep 26, 2008 (8:25 am)
Replying to: mcdawgg (Sep 26, 2008 3:37 am) Well yes and no. I looked under the hood of my Honda and it has parts labels of say Honda USA, but those companies are owned by Honda, Japan, no doubt. Lots of components are built here, while some may be made in Japan and assembled here. It provides jobs. Still seems to be a lot of production going on here in the States. Even a BMW may be built in US of A. Of course a Mazda MX-5 is only built abroad.
#6248 of 7263 Re: The Slide continues... [grbeck] by fintail Sep 26, 2008 (8:29 am)
Replying to: grbeck (Sep 26, 2008 7:18 am) Gotta chime in OT...seeing as how Europe was "liberated" by Americans from one bad ideal to another...there's every reason to expect anti-Americanism there, especially among the young. The cultural disaster being seen is a postwar creation. Generally the older people don't hate Americans so much, in my experience...but the youth are jaded and skeptical at best, as they should be. Replies to this message: steve_ (Sep 26, 2008 8:31 am) nortsr1 (Sep 27, 2008 6:46 am) grbeck (Sep 26, 2008 9:00 am) fintail (Sep 26, 2008 10:08 am) grbeck (Sep 26, 2008 10:28 am) and 10 more...
#6249 of 7263 Re: One other note [andre1969] by m1miata Sep 26, 2008 (8:29 am)
Replying to: andre1969 (Sep 26, 2008 8:21 am) Can I put orange / red instrument panel lighting on the wish list too? It is better than green.
#6250 of 7263 Re: The Slide continues... [fintail] by steve_ HOST Sep 26, 2008 (8:31 am)
Replying to: fintail (Sep 26, 2008 8:29 am) but the youth are jaded and skeptical The French kids are the ones flocking to McDonalds, the US style malls and keeping Hollywood movies #1 at the box office. Replies to this message: nortsr1 (Sep 27, 2008 6:46 am)
#6251 of 7263 Re: 630 billion spending bill presented to congress contains... [mcdawgg] by dave8697 Sep 26, 2008 (8:37 am)
Replying to: mcdawgg (Sep 26, 2008 3:37 am) % NA by weight or dollar value? Replies to this message: mcdawgg (Sep 26, 2008 8:55 am)
#6252 of 7263 Re: 630 billion spending bill presented to congress contains... [dave8697] by mcdawgg Sep 26, 2008 (8:55 am)
Replying to: dave8697 (Sep 26, 2008 8:37 am) This info is on all new cars - I believe by $ value.
#6253 of 7263 Re: The Slide continues... [lilengineerboy] by dave8697 Sep 26, 2008 (8:59 am)
Replying to: lilengineerboy (Sep 26, 2008 3:43 am) All your responses are poor. You admit the media runs down the country. By the way, the media is 98% for the out of office party!!!!! Houses down by 20%? Miami is still double of the 1-1-01 values. House values are way up from 2001 levels, everywhere. Cars are better made and more affordable compared to then. I know someone who paid $22,200 for a new 1998 Civic with hand crank windows. Are you saying America has a high confidence in itself now? Where is that info coming from? 10 years ago? You mean just before the tech bubble burst that turned taxpayers into loss claimers when they filed? It suprised you that tax receipts went down after that? The US Embassy, the Cole, the first WTC attempt and the planning of 911 happened on whose watch? The world liked us then? We woke up and realized we needed a military on 1-1-01. It wasn't going to be free. Any surplus we had was derived by not keeping up the military and taxing the tech bubble, two things that had to end. Replies to this message: lilengineerboy (Sep 26, 2008 9:44 am) dave8697 (Sep 26, 2008 4:38 pm) lilengineerboy (Sep 26, 2008 5:46 pm) and 20 more... imidazol97 (Sep 27, 2008 5:06 am)