Posted on 10/03/2006 9:13:23 PM PDT by Pikamax
How about that--put out a quality product and people will buy it.
Analysts still overlook that foreign makers now offer superior SUVs and are slowly (quickly) creeping up on American truck quality.
Low gas prices won't help American sellers much longer.
This article is incorrect. The MKZ wasn't even being sold last month. The Zephyr, which the MKZ will replace, was Lincoln's midsize offering.
I only buy American. Cars are much too big an item to send the $$ overseas
Yeah, and I'll bet Jesse Jackson is grinning from ear to ear as he and his crooked pals are getting $6billion dollars of Toyota's customer's hard-earned cash. Hurry up and pay your rightful reparations/jizya all you former slave owners! Just like being a dhimmi, if you ask me.
Clearly, the only way for General Motors to come back with stronger sales is to introduce a Hummer H4 and give us more variety.
It will be great when Toyota and Honda put the Detroit Dinosaurs out of business, especially Ford, Ford should continue to be boycotted for advertising in homosexual magazines, especially after seeing Representative Foley's conduct, to think that Ford uses their profits to target magazine readers like him, I would never buy a Detroit car.
Big 3?
I dunno... I bought a 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix GT and I love it. I also own a 2005 Chevy Suburban. Also a great vehicle.
I told the sales guy if you told me back in the 70's that cars in the year 2006 would be getting just 14 miles a gallon in the city I wouldn't of believed it.
Why bother buying new when you can get a decent used Honda or Toyota for half the price?
Actually, many Japanese companies have manufacturing plants in the US. And the Big 3 have plants in Mexico and Canada.
It's useless to let nationalism interfere with consumerism.
United Auto Workers.
Steelworkers Union.
I can't remember the third.
we usually do buy Amercian.....and have had pretty good luck except for that stinking Plymouth Voyager with the three transmissions......
We could tell Iran and North Korea that, should they wish to become major international players, we could nuke them each a couple of times---it's like fertilizer, man.
It wouldn't hurt GM to improve dealership service. I just went in to get a chipped key for my Century, the counter dude didn't care if I lived or died. Just careless, rude service.
A hundred bucks for a bit of metal and 5 minutes of his time, he could have at least thanked me for my business.
I like my Buick, it's a great car, but the customer service at GM and Ford is as bad as it gets. Some Dale Carnegie training would go a long way.
I just don't consider Chrysler an american car company anymore and I think it's been a long time since it was in the big 3.
We'll just ignore that Toyota spends MORE than Ford on said advertising.
What Ford "car" gets 14 mpg?
The ONLY one rated that low is the GT. Yet it gets higher MPG than its competition (how much do you expect from a supercars?)
The only truly poor MPG performance is from the Focus, which did get a boost this year to up to 37 mpg (compared to up to 41 for its direct competition)
There's more error in the EPA numbers than these differences. My Taurus was rated 19/26. I get 23/31. My Camry was rated 23/30. I get 21/32. The sticker says the Camry is more efficient. My pocketbook says it makes little difference.
There's a reason why business make decisions to go with a manufacturer - lowest overall cost.
There's a difference between reliability and quality. My Taurus has been much more reliable than my Camry. My Camry "feels" like a higher quality car. Anecdotal, sure. But true industry-wide reliability data shows little difference.
Have you driven a Fusion? A few years ago, Ford boosted investment in interiors (Lincoln TRIPLED)... the Fusion is the first of the vehicles to truly benefit. You can tell. There's the quality boost.
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