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Originally posted by Doug C:
Wow, I am shocked. I thought that the Nissan/Infinity/Lexus/Toyota vehicles were SUPPOSED to be soooo perfect. I can't imagine that the enigineers who are so smart messed up on the dipstick.
Wow, what else did they mess up?
Make mine American, by American workers, in American plants with money staying in American.
With all of the problems, warts and all, I still prefer a GM or Ford over ANY foreign product.
No, I do not consider a Kia made in an American plant an American product. It's still a foreign car.
Oh here we go again. I'm with Pablo on this. Yep, my G35 has an issue or two, but far fewer than any of the domestics I've owned. So the VQ35 has a semi-frustrating/semi-amusing issue with the dipstick -- so what. You've got to add about two litres of displacement before you find a domestic engine that's on par with the VQ's output, and there aren't any domestics that come close to it on NVH. And just look at GM's 3.5L V-6 -- the VQ35 outperforms it by approximately 70 hp and 70 ft-lb (approx, since the VQ comes in different trims, depending upon application).
Domestics are in no way, shape, or form "bad" cars -- they're just consistently about a decade behind their competition. Inexcusable.
Doug, I am a Colonel in the Marine Corps. Not only have I earned the right to buy whatever darned car I can afford, but I've had the chance, through experience, to see how baseless sentiments like those you expressed really are. I've spent a long time in Japan and worked with many Japanese. Like us, for the most part, they're good people, and also like us, they have their quirks. Before and during WW2, they were dominated by an extremist government, but being loyal countrymen, they did what they were asked/told. Newsflash: the guys who built my Infiniti were not the same ones shooting at your relatives. My grandfather had a couple destroyers shot from under him by the Japanese -- he got over it, and so have I.
You can have your choice, whatever it may be, that's what this country is all about. But if you want to catch me in my V-6 powered choice, you'll need a much-more-expensive 'vette or Caddy CTS-V to do it.
