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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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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Dec 03, 2008 1:09 pm) That's buying American for you. Isn't BAE a large British company? And Bloomberg is wanting to raise taxes as the city is going broke. This whole country is run by lunatics. |
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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Dec 03, 2008 9:27 am)  Ya know there should be a new and improved bus system in America. I recall, all so many years ago, when Greyhound bus had many buses coming and going out of a really neat and clean looking building in our little city. Buses came in through one side of the block and drove on leaving out the front of the other side of the block. Today it is but a small building, not open all night, and is in rather beat up shape. |
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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Dec 03, 2008 1:20 pm) Personally, while I would love to have the ol' V8 powered car again, it would more likely be the pleasure machine, while keeping my V6 or even going back to i4 for a travel car. I can see know reason to drive a car, even if a V8, which can not achieve at least say 22-24MPG on the freeway. Once the economy recovers, gas should be around $2.75 to $3.50, with ease. If we slip into a depression, I guess a V8 which gets 14MPG may be OK for a second car, as gas may remain low, or should I say go as low as you indicated into the $1.50 per gal. |
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Replying to: circlew (Dec 03, 2008 1:34 pm) |
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Replying to: joshuag (Dec 04, 2008 1:11 am) Bingo!!! No one but an eco dweeb or high mileage commuter would buy a Prius when gas is cheap. It may be too little, too late for GM. The Acadia seems to be a real family hit and the young people buy the Tahoe, Denali and Escalades and bling them out. When you are living at home for free you can afford an expensive ride. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 04, 2008 5:57 am) Or someone who believes that these low fuel prices are only a temporary thing. When you are living at home for free you can afford an expensive ride. That's nice when you get there, but how many people can claim that nowadays? |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 04, 2008 5:57 am) Witness the dumping of Hummer and the continual decline in sales of BOF trucks that are contributing to GM's demise. Gas is at 1.73 here and yet you are still more likely to spot bigfoot than you would a Tahoe or a Suburban...
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Replying to: anythngbutgm (Dec 04, 2008 6:14 am) Not the case in So CA. It is a sea of blinged out SUVs and PU trucks. Hummers were never more than a niche. Most of the Tahoe, Denali Escalade drivers around here are early 20s. With $10k worth of ugly wheels and tires. Or an F350 diesel Ford lifted sky high. If it were not for big SUVs and PU trucks GM & Ford would already be missing from the CA landscape. People that buy cars go foreign. What was the statistic in San Francisco, 86% import vehicles. I don't think SoCA is that high, but close. We still have lots of retired Navy guys that drive Caddies. Non Com retirees drive Oldsmobile and Buick. They usually keep cars for 20 years like Lemko. That is not going to keep GM going. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 04, 2008 5:57 am) Aren't you the same gagrice who declared that high gas prices made trucks and SUVs a good buy, since there was little demand for them? Same principle applies here in the converse.
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Replying to: bumpy (Dec 04, 2008 8:38 am) I've actually thought about that. Have the lower gas prices put enough pressure on small cars yet to knock their prices down? If I could pick up something like an '06 or newer Civic on the cheap, I might consider it, but I doubt if they're at fire-sale prices just yet! A local used car lot has an '04 Civic coupe, red, stickshift, 50K miles, for $11K. And a 1994 Accord DX with 95K miles on it for $5495. Automatic, a/c, but crank windows. They also have a '98 Corolla with 105K miles, white, automatic for $6995. I don't care how good their reputation is, but in my mind, that price is a rip! Now it's a nice one...an LE model. Power windows. Ad even says it has side airbags! Were those even out yet in '98? Still, I can't see paying that kind of money for an economy car with over 100K miles. |
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