To those of use with decades of experience with both Japanese and American designed cars, it's not a perception or trendiness. If I was looking for perception or trendiness I would be driving a Humm job or a Tupperware clad Pontiac.quote:
Originally posted by brianl703:
I think it's less about actual reliability these days than it is "trendyness" and percieved reliability.
These comments have always tickled me. Many times when someone says they've never performed a maintenance event it certainly doesn't mean that the vehicle didn't need it.quote:
Originally posted by brianl703:
Then there was the guy I know through a mutual friend. We were discussing changing the shocks and struts in my Mustang (17 years old, 160K miles). He pipes up and says, "I've never had to change the struts on my TOYOTA CAMRY and it's got a lot of miles on it...".
The answer to that is you. Toyota is a foreign owned company and the US/Canadian parts content on your Taco is 55%. The parts content on your 4-Runner is 5%. Parts content on my Cavalier is 86%. GM is an American owned company. Understand now?quote:
Originally posted by Amkeer:
Who refuses to buy American?
A weird quirk to that is that most who buy American that I know always say the parts are cheaperquote:
Originally posted by Bugshu:
GM can lose a few bucks on a car and then try to make up for it in the future with repairs and selling authorized GM parts. An alternator that sells for $120 at Autozone will sell for $400 at the dealership and the 97% of the public that goes to a dealership because they dont know how to change an altenator will find the dealer unwilling to install an autozone part.
Bugshu
I hope so! I have $1,839.45 in GM earnings that I plan to use in the next six months or so. I've read on the saturn board that GM is slapping GM badges on all their vehicles (Saturn, Saab) so maybe they will increase their saturn sales by not selling for MSRP anymore. They do talk about moving volume vehicles. Saturn Vue would be nice to grabquote:
Originally posted by eljefino:
Think that will allow GM card points, and/or include saturns?
Dont waste your time argueing with Amkeer, he is a Toyota schill through and through, just look at all his posts. Any time there is a recall for a Domestic, he chimes in like clockwork. If someone wants an opinion on a domestic car he chimes in and tells them it is junk even though he doesnt own one, and tells them to buy a Toyota.quote:
Originally posted by cousincletus:
The answer to that is you. Toyota is a foreign owned company and the US/Canadian parts content on your Taco is 55%. The parts content on your 4-Runner is 5%. Parts content on my Cavalier is 86%. GM is an American owned company. Understand now?quote:
Originally posted by Amkeer:
Who refuses to buy American?
quote:
Originally posted by jsharp:
Two guys decide they want to go into business selling watermelons.
They setup a produce stand, purchase a truck and drive out to a farm and buy a whole truckload of watermelons for $1 each.
They price the watermelons at $.75 each and every day for a week they sell out completely.
At the end of the week they count their money and notice they've lost thousands of dollars.
The "thinking" one of the two thinks about it for a long time and suddenly realizes what he's sure is the problem.
He says to the other - " I know what we need! We just need a bigger truck!!"
This new incentive program for GM should be just the truck they need...
Bear in mind that one of them was built in 1988.quote:
Originally posted by XS650:
While you're driving your Fords
In the case of struts, it's easy to see how someone might never notice the gradual deterioration in handling as they wear out. Or, if they do, not realize that it's because the struts are worn out. ("It's an old car, isn't it supposed to handle like this?")quote:
Originally posted by FowVay:
These comments have always tickled me. Many times when someone says they've never performed a maintenance event it certainly doesn't mean that the vehicle didn't need it.
Man, what the heck happened with that one!quote:
Originally posted by brianl703:
Boring is good. Last time GM tried to make something exciting, the result was the Aztek.
But before that, there was the Impala SS...quote:
Originally posted by brianl703:
Boring is good. Last time GM tried to make something exciting, the result was the Aztek.