Originally Posted By: Vuflanovsky
"America, love it or leave it" as it relates to car production. Gotta love that. America can produce at whatever level and have the shortest vacations in the industrialized world, but if they have processes, management, and unions that are OK with a less than optimal product than others, I might have to buy a car not produced here and feel OK with it. It's the second largest purchase the average person makes. I don't view that as being incumbent on me to buy a second-rate product if I believe that's what it is...Detroit's come a long way since the 70s and 80s and I don't have many issues about buying an American car today that I might've had issues about back then...but that's what needed to happen and not just that the vehicle was made in Michigan or Ohio.
Everything had issues in the 70s and 80s. Japanese cars would rust away faster than American cars, so that was pretty much a wash. I can also remember them blowing head gaskets a lot and parts being expensive, but I can def agree the QC was better; just not enough to put a man out of a job.
"America, love it or leave it" as it relates to car production. Gotta love that. America can produce at whatever level and have the shortest vacations in the industrialized world, but if they have processes, management, and unions that are OK with a less than optimal product than others, I might have to buy a car not produced here and feel OK with it. It's the second largest purchase the average person makes. I don't view that as being incumbent on me to buy a second-rate product if I believe that's what it is...Detroit's come a long way since the 70s and 80s and I don't have many issues about buying an American car today that I might've had issues about back then...but that's what needed to happen and not just that the vehicle was made in Michigan or Ohio.
Everything had issues in the 70s and 80s. Japanese cars would rust away faster than American cars, so that was pretty much a wash. I can also remember them blowing head gaskets a lot and parts being expensive, but I can def agree the QC was better; just not enough to put a man out of a job.
