On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:48:42 GMT, Brian Henderson
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:13:01 -0500, Dr. Know
wrote:

You are one in a million. If more people spoke with their
pocketbooks, perhaps we wouldn't have unemployment rates that we do.

The problem is, people DO speak with their pocketbooks. Personally, I
don't care where it's built, so long as it's quality construction for
a reasonable price.

Ahhh, but they speak with the language of CHEAP. No matter that the
product falls apart in 6 months.

I DO, however, like to keep my neighbors employed and their homes off
the courthouse steps.

The same goes for cars. The last two Fords I've owned have been
complete crap. The latest one has been recalled by the factory twice,
has had the transmission fail within the first year and it STILL
doesn't work right, it's been nothing but a nightmare.

Hmmm, I have 3 Fords. But I stay away from mechanics and do the work
myself. And yes, their 4R70W transmission had a number of problems.
I bought a T-Bird cheap because 3 previous techs failed to properly
repair this car. That is 3 trannys in 80,000 miles!
I overhauled it myself, upgraded the problem points - so far, no
problems. It even chirps second when I get on it... ;-)

The Toyota that my wife had when we got married lasted over 300k miles
and 12 years with no significant problems.

I have a '79 Toyota Supra with 360,000 miles and a Peugeot with
510,000 miles. But try finding parts... ;-)

You think I'm going to buy American with that kind of track record?

Depends on whether you want to circulate your money back into this
economy or build yet another foreign world empire.

Oops... too late...

Greg