6th Dec 2009, 19:46
If you actually READ the comments, you'll find MANY import fans making statements that we should let the 14,000,000 Americans employed by U.S. auto-related companies lose their jobs. It is very sad to think we live in a country that WANTS to destroy others jobs in order to drive cars that are sold as a result of 3 DECADES of brainwashing using billions of ad dollars by Japanese companies. ALL modern cars are practically equal in quality and reliability (although the two top-rated cars are BOTH domestics) so why on Earth NOT help U.S. industry by buying American? I'm a therapist and I am currently working with a number of import owners to "de-program" them from the years of brainwashing. One of them is currently trying to sell his 2004 Honda so he can buy an American car. So far he has has no takers. He is only asking $8,000. That also blows the "better resale" myth out of the water. I just sold a used Ford Fusion that I bought a year ago at a PROFIT of $1100.
6th Dec 2009, 11:09
They are not necessarily unpatriotic. Just misguided in falling for the hype that Japanese cars are somehow better than new Fords or Chevies, and holding onto the old, hackneyed idea that "domestics are junk" and "Honda is better." Also, they are close-minded for not realizing that Ford makes the most reliable cars in the world, fully as good as Toyota or Honda. I don't care what people buy -- just don't buy it because you heard that Honda Civics were great 20 years ago.