The Mood in Detroit: 2009 NAIAS Special Feature

[heartlessvietboy]

Detroit is failing because they are building inefficient engine cars.

[NYdave1]

move out of the way of the challenger!

[kasdri]

Many people are sore , like myself about getting burned from purchasing crap from detroit , and i said never again , and never means never.

[stiqman]

no cutaways? do you guys even have ONE editor? im falling sleep. and the womans head is covering the wheel its bugging me.

[keewatin427]

I really want Detroit do win. I want great American cars, it sucks though because for 40 years Japanese and now Korean carmakers have been working like stink to make great cars and they have done it. Big3 needs to make amazing cars to be competitive, not just amazing trucks. They need smooth shifting gears and connected steering and balance in all their cars not just the halo cars. My favorite cars re big3 unfortunately they are mostly 40 years old. The G8 is an amazing car but none knows it

[keewatin427]

Detroit loses because they can't compete with non union companies like Honda and Toyota (besides the fact they are cheapskates with their development costs and materials) and the consumer loses because for the last 20 to 30 years big 3 has been emitting shit cars. I know now they have caught on lately with the Flex and Malibu but it seems a day late and a dollar short. R.I.P. big 3.

[EricEthier]

Truth. Alot of great American cars are being built... new Dodge Ram & Caravan are huge... Malibu is awesome, Flex too. Hopefully people will have must trust in the big three. In 08 they had very good dependability ratings.

[keewatin427]

Yeah, the funny thing is so many American cars do really well on dependability scores now a days, it's too bad no one with money thinks that anymore. Its like if you have more than $30,000 to spend you automatically assume to by a foreign car. The big three need to get it out there that their products are scoring so well, dispel this clunker myth. The next step (which I know they are doing) is to get better interiors, but the most important step is to build quieter smoother small engines

[keewatin427]

But bottom line, Detroit has shot them selves in the foot over the years. They cannot expect the consumer to buy an inferior product that is inferior because their union benefits add to the total cost of the car. I ultimately blame big 3 for being cheapskates with their materials, but their excuse is there scumbag capitalists. Its lose-lose-lose. The union worker loses because foreign cars build them in non-union states in the south....

[keewatin427]

This is a hard argument because I believe in unions, they are what made North America great. Unfortunately corporations are greedy fucks and will undermine them at any cost and save as much as they can by making cheep cars that suck when compared to companies who can put non-union savings into their products. The people who lose the most are the innocent union worker who needs a good salary to support their families and me, who loves American cars, but hates their shitty build quality.

[keewatin427]

Try that with Japanese and now even Korean cars. Totally reliable, can and will run like Swiss clocks in -45 Celsius winter weather and cost the same as their big 3 counterparts. But their interiors and materials are much better because the money saved by non union workers goes into the cars material costs, so don't sit there and tell me what I don't know, redneck. And besides, I have nothing against American cars. If I could afford it my personal car would be a SRT challenger. I love Mopar!

[Asymmetry0]

intresting

[keewatin427]

Unions make American cars shitty. I understand they just want to make a living & have good benefits for their families but they got greedy over the years and just like any big business the big 3 need to cut costs and make as much of a profit as possible.

[keewatin427]

So the interior of your corvette or your challenger or even your cobalt looks and feels like G.I. Joes ass, cause the cost of Joe Detroits fluff paycheck is out of the cars materials. Both the big 3 & the unions are to blame but the unions need to realize they are shooting them selves in the foot

[Moosey1789]

So what is BMW, VW, Audi, Mercedes, and Porsche's excuse for jamming their sticker price up your colon? Unions? Or you just think they make better cars? Go buy one and keep it maintained. You know nothing about what you speak.

[keewatin427]

Did you think I forgot about you moosey? All of the cars you mentioned cost so much because material costs are vastly higher than any American car, even on base cars they use such high cost materials as Italian leather, stainless steel, high grade aluminum, carbon fiber, not to mention all the parts that are hand assembled. These are vehicles engineered and manufactured to appeal to a demograph that can afford the bi-annual tune up. Its easy to target German cars and point out their price.

[Mamakayi]

Lets see wat happens next year?????

Wat?? That does NOT sound optimistic, maaaaaaaaaann :-( :-( :-(...

[democracyisdead]

It used to be that, the big three had cars that were fairly easy and cheap to fix. Now, mechanics arn't allowed to buy the diagnostic tools to fix them. (At least with one of the 3)

Hybrids are capped at how fuel efficient they are.

Electric cars are destroyed.

Btw, i drove a toyota, and it was fine in the snow.

[A9L8R]

Michelle Krebs, you are obviously very knowledgeable about the automotive industry and it was a pleasure to watch this video and listen to someone who talks more reality and less perception like most in the media these days. I am a fan. Keep up the good work !!

[87TAGTABANDIT]

That challenger in the background was badass

[euro944t]

Check the dogomatic weak interior. Camaro SS manual is more valuable.

[XxViciousxX]

Rofl American cars suck well there made cheap to be cheap and have you looked good and hard in a Japanese car they have just as much plastic as American cars do they just cover it up in useless electronics that you don't need and there fore jacks up the price then you got European cars which look cool and are very well built but there even more expensive. also that stupid comment about copying that's just stupid enough said.

[sdustin85]

well thats funny because german cars are behind america and japan in reliability,cost and durability.look cool?look at vw/audi same looking car over and over with a new boring numeric name for them...yay!

[warner0016]

Americans cars dont suck. I dont get why everyone thinks they do. I live in michigan, we get some bad winters. Every winter its the American made cars not just trucks that you see driving with no problem. I find it funny when you got the little toyota POS swirving all over. and yea some german cars are nice, but expensive as hell.

[andrestnt]

the original electric car was made by gm and that gave toyota the drive to make a hibrids when gm kill the electric car toyota copied gm and gm had a 3 year head start for electric cars exept they kill their programs and toyota just dint dont make stupid ass comments

[seroyer2]

I don't Care about american cars. I know that they are good for the economy, but there cars suck they are just over the top styling stop using chrome that was cool 50 year ago not now, and no hybrid's that is Toyota thing so stop copying doing something new find your own niche.

[sdustin85]

Are you high?The imports use more chrome now than we do and most people including myself still like it.And also stop copying toyota?The United States was the first to mass produce cars in general.

[seroyer2]

ya that the problem Americans have no taste it time for the car company's to start appealing to the 25 - 40 year olds who don't car about there cars from the 70s. thats there market.

[seroyer2]

Black is in Bing is out!

[sdustin85]

ok pick a side you just completely contradicted the comment i responded to in the first place...oh nvm i know your one of those youtube geeks that just sits and argues even if they make no sense.dont respond idc.

[XxViciousxX]

lol i think you miss under stood i like American cars the only German cars that look cool are the ones that cost like over 100k like we got the cool stuff that's faster then them we got zr1 zo6 i wish the ford gt would come back again. then we got the viper acr plus vets and vipers look better then most of those jap and German cars sides the extremely expensive ones. i wont buy anything other then American cars i got an 82 trans am a 86 Fiero and a 97 5.0 explorer.

[juvereal]

there goes 4 min of my life

[ironchopsticks]

this video was almost as boring as the connect an ipod video series.

[rs2p00nz]

4th

[thenext4]

3ed

[8nguy]

1st

[thenext4]

no ur second

[jstennis96]

wow i am first on a lot of IndsideLine's videos