Does America Even Need Its Own Automakers?

Replying to: xrunner2 (Mar 02, 2009 9:08 am)

Of course these cars were named after their creators, before there was even the concept of "marketing". Car ads when Mr. Buick and Mr. Olds were in their prime were very straightforward. They said things like "It'll get you there" and "easy to drive, even for women"----things like that. We are talking WW I era.
 
Buick and Olds were created in a different world. It's amazing they lasted as long as they did. Some say "Benz" is the oldest survivor, but actually Mercedes-Benz only dates from 1927.
 
Contrary to Mr. Obama, America did not "invent" the car, but we certainly invented how to make a lot of them efficiently.
 
An art we have apparently lost

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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Mar 02, 2009 9:13 am)

Contrary to Mr. Obama, America did not "invent" the car, but we certainly invented how to make a lot of them efficiently.
  
An art we have apparently lost
 
Oh, we can still make them more efficiently than anyone else. We just can't sell them at a profit.

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Replying to: fezo (Mar 02, 2009 8:09 am)

I grew up in the hills in NW Jersey and learned to drive on old, traditional RWD American cars - like a 67 Pontiac Tempest and 66 Biscayne (both nice looking cars BTW). We lived on the middle part of an s curve heading downhill and I was fine. Never had a mishap. The only people who ever did have a problem on that hill were cases of opps rather than weather - like the mailman who forgot to set his brake and ended up with a Jeep in the woods
 
When I lived in the hills of NW Jersey for 20 yrs I'd shock people by saying that between my house and Cleveland the only things there were bears, golf courses and ski runs.

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