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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: gearhead1977 (Jan 28, 2009 7:07 am) 
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Replying to: gearhead1977 (Jan 28, 2009 7:07 am) Regards, OW |
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Replying to: berri (Jan 26, 2009 8:47 am) These 'trick' warranties are a necessity for those manufacturers that NEED to portray a quality that doesn't necesssarily exist, or as a means to live down past miscreations. If the Chryslers/GMs/Hyundais of the world didn't have problems with actual or perceived quality, you can be assured that wouldn't be offering the warranties that they do. It was after all, those Koreans that 'invented 'the 100k warranty, but only as a means to make the consumer forget about those disasters they foisted on us in the 80s and into the 90s. They all will do what they need to do to sell their products, nothing to do with 'quality' at all. Toyota and Honda don't offer long warranties because they don't need to and not necessarily because they are any better from a reliability perspective even though statistics would seem to indicate this is the case. Chrysler and GM have been exploring the depths of ludricrous warranties because they can't sell their products otherwise, Ford interestingly has avoided the long warranties BUT is doing better quality/reliability wise than the other two, and Hyundai is also improving to the point that they are at least on par with 'Detroit'. In any case a long warranty should be regarded as more of a warning to the consumer of suspect quality not the other way around.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jan 27, 2009 12:31 pm) |
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I want to let people know that Chrysler STILL builds some great cars. I recently trded my Buick Lucerne for 2008 T & C Limited. I love the Chrysler. Great performance, excellent ride, comfortable seats, and built by UAW workers that get a decent wage and benefits. How about the Dodge trucks? I have a 2001 Dakota I purchased new and it has served flawlessly for 9 years and gets fron17 mpg local driving to 22mpg highway with a V-8 As for me, I am going to keep cheering the American Auto Industry as the best in the world
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Replying to: bpizzuti (Jan 28, 2009 7:08 am) |
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Replying to: dodgem78 (Jan 28, 2009 11:04 am) as we all should - it will do this country no good at all if Chrysler or any of the D3 go under and/or become a load on our tax dollars. You didn't say, however, whether you T&C was one of those good American made ones or if it is instead a Canadian product.  All of which just adds to our problems - how much money do we have to send to Canada, Mexico, or even to China before we realize that buying cars not made in ths country but with 'American' names is worse for this country than buying Japanese/Korean branded company's products that do happen to be made here 
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Replying to: captain2 (Jan 28, 2009 12:16 pm) There is no perfect scenario. The most "American" car according to a list I saw in my Autoweek is Fords Crown Victoria/Mercury Grand Marquis. 90% US content. They are ONLY produced now in Canada.
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Replying to: captain2 (Jan 28, 2009 12:16 pm) Big difference. Regards,ow
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Replying to: captain2 (Jan 28, 2009 12:16 pm) It's better to have a US company building in Mexico and Canada, our friends, that by a company of a foreign nation who has no allegiance to us and can close that factory and move production elsewhere on a whim or a retaliation move.
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