Speak for yourself. Some of us like myself are proud to drive american cars and support our economy and autoworkers. Some of us actually care about the working class autoworkers, and have pride in owning domestic made products. Maybe it's more of a middle/working class thing, but where I live in Eastern Canada you see about 90% american cars on the road. A lot of people bought the earlier japanese cars, and they rusted out prematurely so they never really gave them a second chance. Around here where the roads are salted heavily, the engines always outlast the cars anyways.
I owned a few used foreign cars when I couldn't afford anything better; I didn't find them to be problem free or any more reliable than my american cars. I challenge any company to make a more reliable engine than the carburated 5.0 305 in my Vandura work van. It has 456000 kms on it and counting, barely burns any oil, never left me stranded, and starts in any weather.
You can't just say all American cars are crap as a blanket statement; my experience has proven otherwise. I also had an 80's Crown Vic that had 420000 kms when I sold it, and an 80's Pontiac Parisienne with over 350000 kms, and it still worked like new when I sold it. My family also has a 98 Ford Ranger with 273000 on it, excellent little truck. Even the 2002 Taurus we have, which has a bad reputation, is still running great at 252000 kms. Not bad for a "junk" american car...
7th Aug 2012, 11:31
Speak for yourself. Some of us like myself are proud to drive american cars and support our economy and autoworkers. Some of us actually care about the working class autoworkers, and have pride in owning domestic made products. Maybe it's more of a middle/working class thing, but where I live in Eastern Canada you see about 90% american cars on the road. A lot of people bought the earlier japanese cars, and they rusted out prematurely so they never really gave them a second chance. Around here where the roads are salted heavily, the engines always outlast the cars anyways.
I owned a few used foreign cars when I couldn't afford anything better; I didn't find them to be problem free or any more reliable than my american cars. I challenge any company to make a more reliable engine than the carburated 5.0 305 in my Vandura work van. It has 456000 kms on it and counting, barely burns any oil, never left me stranded, and starts in any weather.
You can't just say all American cars are crap as a blanket statement; my experience has proven otherwise. I also had an 80's Crown Vic that had 420000 kms when I sold it, and an 80's Pontiac Parisienne with over 350000 kms, and it still worked like new when I sold it. My family also has a 98 Ford Ranger with 273000 on it, excellent little truck. Even the 2002 Taurus we have, which has a bad reputation, is still running great at 252000 kms. Not bad for a "junk" american car...