Why US Automakers?

Why are US automakers in such trouble? Maybe because those of us who drove American made cars for years got tired of being nickle and dimed by things breaking on their cars. Broken window lifts here, blown headgasket there, transmission leaks and failures, emissions system component failure, and so on. After awhile, people buy a Toyota and nothing breaks. Here is a view of my neighbors Avalon with in excess of 262,000 miles on it. I drive it around as he ditches his fianl American made car. Sorry to you guys that work there as I know it sucks for you. All of the management should be replaced but they get the gold and you get the shaft. Mon 4/27/09 Commenting on GM's intentions to drop Pontiac. Oldsmobile was chopped so we know that Pontiac is doomed. Those boys swing a mean axe and they are swinging for their lives. Understanding their reasoning for saving Buick, mainly because of foriegn markets and profitability potential, it is an idiotic move clearly demonstrating that General Motors is doomed. What they should have done is to consolidate Buick and Pontiac and make the foriegn stuff as Buicks and the domestic as Pontiac. Names plates aren't that expensive. Have a sports/performance division, a middle of the road average division, a luxury division, and the truck division. Then stay out of each others areas.

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[whotolduso]

youre a couple years too late tho. GM now offers 100,000 mile warranties and according to JD Power n Associates initial quality gap has pretty much been closed. Chrysler is lagging a bit behind..

[vbdenny]

@whotolduso 100,000 mile warranty won't do it. The cars should last 250,000 at least. If a car is shot by 100,000, it isn't worth buying. It is not the warranty that is the issue, it is the quality which just isn't there.

[whotolduso]

@vbdenny It doesn't mean the car will break after 100. My buddy just sold his Grand Prix with over 200.. but that's not the point. I don't blame you since for such a long time they were cutting corners to make ends meet after feeding ridiculous union obligations - resulting in shitty quality. I'm glad they got a kick in the ass and today I wouldnt hesitate getting a new focus or fiesta over a corolla any day. Don't even get me started on the looks...

[vbdenny]

@whotolduso I guess if I was to buy a new car today it would be (without hesitation) a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. A world class car for $35K

[GayUOPXBoy10]

I had a Miserable Mazda, a Horrible Honda, and now I have a Terrible Toyota (not by my choice) and I had nothing but troubles after troubles after troubles with those cars! I had a Ford and it was the best damn car I ever had! If I had a choice right now I would own an American car!!

[vbdenny]

@GayUOPXBoy10 ah yeah but look at the positive sides of it all. Buick is the most popular brand in China and they have a boatload of people. I think we build Buicks there as well. Interesting to me is that Korea is even worse than Japan in repect to allowing imported cars. Either way, with all thos I saw washed away in the Tsamumi, my guess is that car sales will be up there.

[SuperM1998]

good video mate...yeah usa quality :D

[SuperM1998]

lexus rx is old, but still looks cool :)

[whotolduso]

@vbdenny Every car sold internationally is world class... That's fine, it's a great car. It definitely won't last for 250k miles w out problem, since that seems to be your criteria of a good car.. Mitsubishis definitely don't have a lagacy of quality and reliability. They're hit and miss..

[390merc65]

@laupstad so tell me exactly how much did ford donate?.or the lack there of???..and most ppl know if you buy an older american muscle car...usually those kind of cars are beat to death since they leave the car lot new...and ppl can badmouth american cars all they want and say they are junk, but there are also american cars and trucks that have gone the distance and proven them selfs as well ..and american cars seem to have a huge fallowing around the world as well

[390merc65]

@laupstad they do not want them there only to save their own ....well maybe ford did not give much ,,but it didnt take them long to at least help unlike toyota and honda here in the states when 9/11 happened ,,if a 75 t/a is crap..then how well is any 75 toyota or honda???..and i seem to remember mercedes having some reliability issues ..so it seems  no matter what you buy...or how much you spend..any and all cars will make crap ...including mercedes

[laupstad]

@390merc65 If they allowed the big three to make cars there? Why would they even WANT to make cars in market where they don't sell any? Since i posted this comment i have seen that Ford finally stepped up and donated, allthough it wasn't much. I just wanna add that my current cars (I'm from Norway) is a Pontiac Bonneville SSE and a 75 Trans Am. I love them to death, but they're still crap. Specially compared to my neighbours E-class Merc wich cost the same as the SSE new.