[hopespringseternal]

Anyone who lived through the 80’s and has a functioning brain cell wouldn’t by a car from an American company at gunpoint.

Even today, Nissan, Toyota, Honda, even Hyundai are head and shoulders above Ford, GM and Chrysler.

[catnipman]

“Anyone who lived through the 80’s and has a functioning brain cell wouldn’t by a car from an American company at gunpoint”

and the 70’s were WAY WAY WAY worse for American car quality ... i vowed then to NEVER EVER buy another American engineered vehicle ... and I never have ...

[SamAdams76]

I started buying Nissan in the mid 1980s after having some really bad experiences with "American" cars including specifically the Ford Tempo, Ford Escort, Pontiac Grand Am and my first car, an Oldsmobile '98 (1972).

My first Nissan Sentra ran 150,000 miles with nothing but oil changes and other periodic maintenance at the recommended intervals. Experience was repeated ever since with the Nissan Rogue, Murano, Quest, Maxima and Altima models (my wife purchases them too). My AAA card has not been used since except to get discounts at hotels, etc. But I was towed at least a half dozen times prior to 1985.

I actually consider Nissan more of an "American" car company than Ford and GM because they have manufacturing plants here in the U.S. and (so far as I know), they have not been infested with the UAW.