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Final assignment « 6606 Government Business-Relations — Fri, 13 May 2011 04:29:31 +0000

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By: Rollo

Rollo — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:31:40 +0000

The truth is, most people buy Japanese cars for gas mileage more than any other reason. I have owned 27 different cars in my life. German, American and Japanese. The American cars where the most comfortable to drive and I felt safer in a big car than a small car. People tend to be selfish, me included, so they will buy a foreign car and put american people out of work and hurt our economy in the long run for their short term gain. People are short sighted and selfish and now we are seeing the results of that. IMO, we should support American industry for our children and grandchildren’s future.

By: RaMKa

RaMKa — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:28:06 +0000

American should look beyond American boundries (not only for war) and learn..in foreign (especially in Asia) the buying decison is biased towards mileage and it is common to have small cars with above 25 kilometers per liter of petrol. Expectations from Sedan are not below 21 (translates to above 65mpg) with minimum luxuries..
I am convinced that Americans are wasting natural resources a lot and asking 3rd world to control emmisions.
I am new to US and was surprised when my fried told me that American built cars mostly lack some comman sense devices like lock for gas filling opening of sak tank. This is as if they fill American will enjoy all of the gas on the planet and will never fall short of it.
CHANGE or CHANGE WILL CHANGE YOU

By: Forme

Forme — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:50:40 +0000

For me, if you want better safety, buy American cars. But, if you want car that just rolls and have high fuel efficiency, buy Japanese car. And if someone is rich, they wouldn’t buy neither Japanese or American car, they would buy European cars such as porsche or Ferari. I wouldn’t buy trucks if I’m not working for heavy duties and such. I guess trucks tend to have lower mpg than smaller cars. Everyone have different opinions (I would buy cars that would save my money though)

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By: Internet BS

Internet BS — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:37:59 +0000

This is a classic apple to oranges comparison. Basically it amount to a bunch of krap. Shame on you.

By: American Warranty Guy

American Warranty Guy — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:02:39 +0000

Do any of you guys know who has the most recalled cars? It is Toyota. They had 492 recall campaigns in 2009 compared to 684 campaigns in 2008. That was followed with a close second by Ford with 8 recall campaigns. Toyota recalled 6 million vehicles in 2009. They had cars that as they put it were “unexpectedly accellerating”. Why? Because they were too cheap to put a saftey shut off in their computer becasue it would cost them an extra $1.19 per vehicle. I have worked for the seventh largest automotive parts supplier in the world for the past 16 years as a warranty data analyst. Every manufacturer has issues, it is not just the American or Japanese vehicles. I will tell you that Honda and Toyota like to use parts that GM, Ford and Chrysler stopped using 5 to 10 years ago. They do this for many reasons. The testing is already done, they do not have to pay tooling, and the bugs have been worked out. As far as technology the Japanese are steps behind when it comes to saftey features.
In 2008 Chrysler did a comparison of their Jeep Liberty deisel against the Toyota Prius for gas mileage. This is a real test driving 80 MPH, through the same streets at the same time and over all the Jeep got 1 MPG better gas mileage than the Toyota.
As for all you with your great foriegn cars with high miles. I will go way back to my 1975 Malibu, 386,254 miles on it when I sold it. Original wngine and trans. Then I had a bunch of cars that I beat up and crashed so I can not say how far they would have gone. Then we can go to my 1991 Chevy pick up. 318,000 when I sold it, still on the original engine, trans rebuilt at 285,000. Next was my 1997 Monte Carlo 3.1 sold that with 305,000 never did anything to that car other than normal repairs, tires brakes and so on. Next I had my 2004 Monte Carlo 3800, put 165,000 on it and sold it in 2008 without doing any repairs other than tires and brakes. Now I am driving a 2003 Cadillac CTS with 152,000 on no major repairs. (knock on wood). SO as far as the theory of American cars not lasting get out of the 80s and early 90s. American cars last just as long if not longer then Japanese cars and don’t get recalled as much and there warranty repairs are lower per vehicles produced.

By: Toyota4Ever

Toyota4Ever — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:25:01 +0000

I think the main point, besides the MPG issues is that the American manufacturers have to deserve our hard earned money and not just expect it. I could possibly take a bullet for this nation…so there’s no betrayal.

As much as I’ve liked Toyota, I’m feeling they started flirting with that “expectation that you’ll buy our product based on our name” rather than going all out to continue to earn our business. And there’s been a backlash, and they’ve caught on fairly quickly. Hyundai has come along and has worked hard to deserve our business.

As I stated before…I’m still looking for a newer American car that compares to my 1995 Camry with almost 220,000 miles on it. It gets the same mpg as the Cobalt…when driven the same way. Honestly, I would buy the 1995 over the 2005 Camry all other things being equal.

Someone brought up the example of the Mustang, and having owned a smilar car in the past, I can agree. The catch is, the Mustang is an apples / oranges comparison. I and many foreign car owners would easily park this Mustang next to their Camry, but the dealbreaker for me is I want the 18 gallon gas tank (ie. 500 mile range when the gas prices hit $4/gallon) and the ability to drive effortlessly in snow / ice with snow-tires. With a couple of mods, the Camry gets a “coolness card” as well and still pulls 25/34 mpg or more.

Most American RWD and service type vehicles are obviously good enough to be good…but their interiors need work. And once again, the example of the Charger…Dodge should be going ALL-OUT to make this a real flagship car and to make you reconsider purchasing the GS Lexus in the same pre-owned car lot, in terms of looks, which it has — AND quality, long term, and maybe even the additional Turbo Diesel option which would allow us to build the big, nice looking vehicles we know how to make here and to have the more advanced powerplants at the same time. We can get to the moon…we can have our big cars and great mpgs too.

By: USMC Troop

USMC Troop — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:52:37 +0000

Buying foreign is like betraying your country, why would you want to ship jobs over seas while everone is complaining about job losses?