Lost your job yet? Keep buying foreign. Here we go... :) I know

[disturbedfuel15 10+ year member]

Wow, this one took off fast. Anyway, I will not argue with the statement that a lot of foreign cars are reliable. More reliable than American made? I don't know if that is true. I've seen a Ford Focus get 230,00 miles before having to throw a new engine in, and I have seen a Honda Civic get 250,000 before the engine had enough. For that matter, the 4.0 inline Jeeps are known for easily getting more than that. I'm very proud of the fact that here in Detroit, almost everyone drives a Ford. It's about pride in the fact that the workers at the plant still have decent jobs and are able to support this economy. It is VERY true, it is hard to find many things totally built in the USA any more. But I will tell you, I've personally watched an F150 go from sheet metal to getting it's final coat of paint and coming off the line, right here at the Rouge plant in Detroit. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Like someone previously stated, I may not be able to ALWAYS buy American (that's absurdly impossible) but when I can, I do.

 

[Falcons 5,000+ posts]

i drive an audi a4.

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

Honda, Toyota, and lately Hyundai are about as good as it gets for reliability. And like it's been said, very few things are made in the US, assembled maybe, but not made.

Throw Nissan in there as well //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

 

[murph 10+ year member]

Love the new pentastar v6 in my chrysler 200. Made mostly in america.

 

[05trailblazer 10+ year member]

chevy n ford all day here

 

[Falcons 5,000+ posts]

i dont care where people buy their cars, i care more about the gas prices lol

 

[ShawnT 10+ year member]

The QC is not always greater coming from overseas. Some of their stuff is straight fuc|(ed up.

I know they stole and copied alot of designs on the performance side of things. Alot of people buy the cheap stuff amd then have to buy ALOT more because of what the cheap stuff caused.

I try to buy american when I can, but Im not gonna sit here and yell I only buy usa while I type on my foreign phone.....

 

[Canaan 10+ year member]

TLDR...

The US has become a 'service' industry. Not a 'production' industry.

Your thoughts on this?

 

[Canaan 10+ year member]

TLDR...

The US has become a 'service' industry. Not a 'production' industry.

Your thoughts on this?

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

TLDR...
The US has become a 'service' industry. Not a 'production' industry.

Your thoughts on this?

Would you like fries with your answer?

 

[Bettr n' Revrse 5,000+ posts]

Post!

 

[sam_b03 10+ year member]

That is a popular misconception. Several decades ago the Japanese realized the import tariffs on a car brought into the US in pieces was much less than they were for a fully assembled car. So they started building assembly plants in the US, with a side benefit of being able to claim 'made in America'. The reality is the vast majority of labor goes into building those pieces of the car, the body, the drivetrain, etc. Very little labor goes into the assembly process, comparatively speaking. And what work is involved is highly automated.
Dont be fooled by marketing gimmicks.

I can't speak for Toyota but I have been to all 3 Nissan factories in the US. One builds their small cars and SUV's, another only does drive train, and another the newest one as of around 04 builds the larger vehicles. All the out sourced products like sensor are are built on site so they don't have to worry about transportation. I have witnessed the sheet steel being pressed all they way down the paint baths. They dip the chassis no spraying. They even used color matching primer so scratches don't show as much.

I personally could never own a Chylser/Dodge (I am openly biased). I like the old Chevy pickups up to 99. I have been pretty impressed with the new Ford pickups and cars. The only new Chevy car I could justify money for is a C6 Vette.

 

[Canaan 10+ year member]

Would you like fries with your answer?

no, but would you like to super size your order?

***cough*** race to zero ***cough***

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

I can't speak for Toyota but I have been to all 3 Nissan factories in the US. One builds their small cars and SUV's, another only does drive train, and another the newest one as of around 04 builds the larger vehicles. All the out sourced products like sensor are are built on site so they don't have to worry about transportation. I have witnessed the sheet steel being pressed all they way down the paint baths. They dip the chassis no spraying. They even used color matching primer so scratches don't show as much.
I personally could never own a Chylser/Dodge (I am openly biased). I like the old Chevy pickups up to 99. I have been pretty impressed with the new Ford pickups and cars. The only new Chevy car I could justify money for is a C6 Vette.

Then it sounds like at least some of the manufacturers are doing more here in the US than previously.

 

[sam_b03 10+ year member]

TLDR...
The US has become a 'service' industry. Not a 'production' industry.

Your thoughts on this?

This one of the first page

That is the problem with the US economy. We have a service based economy. The foriegn countries make the products that we use to. Now we pay them to ship it here. And trade our money with eachother for the services we can't/won't do. The US makes very little so there there isn't much new money coming in. So the money pay to other countries doesn't ever return.