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Automotive News & Views Buying American Cars What Does It Mean?
7263 messages, Last post on May 27, 2009 at 4:31 AM
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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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All the good taxpayers!!!!! I hope you youngsters keep on working hard and paying taxes to cover the bailouts along with my Medicare and SS checks..My lifestyle is depending on you all to cover the gas bills, insurance, villa maintenance fees, groceries, and property taxes. I will cover the balance of my living costs with the stock market games.. I had to fill-up the hungry GPGT with ethanol premium and lost 2 mpgs right now, what a farce the corny gas is!!!! In reviewing the president-elect personnel picks and the choice of many exClintonites, I was truly disappointed to see that Sandy Berger was not selected for any document swapping/destroying cabinet position..The weasel would be a perfect choice.. See where Toy sales were down 34% last month, another bailout in the asking??? Another solution to the Big3 problem---$1500 tariff on every foreign transplant produced and sold in American..payable to our Treasury Dept...to pay for the bailout of the Big3.. Happy to hear Ford is healthy and will be able to replace any busted parts on the Bullitt... Just maybe the American public will get the message, and boycott the Asian products..That's just nasty, isn't it!!!???? |
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Replying to: andres3 (Dec 02, 2008 10:54 am) "If GM has done its accruals correctly, provisions should have been made to finance those costs at the time of sale." Big if? Note the chart there - GM's claims rate is up a percentage in the last year. General Motors' Warranties (Warranty Week)
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 02, 2008 11:16 am) !00,000 mile warranties probably became a must for GM, however they aren't a big selling point to me..The most I ever had was on the Caddies, and had one engine replaced long after the warranty of 50k had gone south..free of charge..4.9 liter., piston slap when starting cold..no big deal.. The day I buy a Korean car is the day I rennounce my citizenship!!!!! Sorry, at 75, I not going to throw the Big3 under the bus..... Kind of funny the banks and the big boys were bailed out quick with biggggg billions and the auto companies are grilled and sliced up for effect, a drama setting, total political spin...Stevey, it's all political!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Replying to: motorcity6 (Dec 02, 2008 3:08 pm) At 65 it looks to me like GM keeps crawling in front of the train. They haven't done anything right for nearly 40 years. They are no more American than some Korean cars. Their Aveo is made in Korea. Now if you are interested in bailing out Americans. How about the building contractors. They represent a LOT MORE American workers than the Big 3. They want some of this easy money also. Nothing more American than your home built by Americans in America. I just read today that several states including CA have asked for over $100 billion to keep afloat. Heck I could use $25 for when the pizza guy gets here.
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 02, 2008 4:44 pm) What does it mean? Just that age doesn't really prove anything.
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 02, 2008 5:22 pm) My dad snuck by and didn't get one until he was maybe 86. Of course he'd been leasing DeVilles for over a decade at that point.
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Replying to: fezo (Dec 02, 2008 5:24 pm)
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 02, 2008 5:25 pm) Beautiful up there though I can't imagine dealing with taht weather at 75...
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Replying to: fezo (Dec 02, 2008 5:27 pm) 
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 02, 2008 5:28 pm) I've been up to the UP a few times. Always in the summer. I remember seeing pictures up by the Mackinac bridge showing the area under multiple feet of snow. Just amazing. i remember once looking on realtor.com at houses in Sault Ste Marie. I could live in a mansion there for what my house in NJ is worth. Of course I'd spend all my money heating it... |
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