"Ralph Mowery" wrote in
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"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"harry" wrote in message

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Heh Heh. Finally catches up with where Europe and Japan were fifty
years ago.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/bu...to.html?_r=1&s
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The car makers are not catching up, the consumer is. Detroit built
small car back in the 60's. I liked my '62 Corvair. Then the Pinto,
Chevette, Horizon, Vega, etc, but they just never sold many of them.

The American cars did have the small cars as far back as the 60's.
Just none of them were any good. The larger ones were not any better.
I had a Ford , 3 Chrysler products , and 2 GM products. None of them
made it to 80,000 miles. The last one was a 74 GM product and I had to
put two timing gears in it and the transmission went out at 75,000. I
have only bought Toyotas for the last several cars. One went 100,000
with only standard maint. Traded it off for a Camry and put 190,000
on it and only changed one sensor. Just put tires on a Tacoma truck
at 45,000 and no unscheduled maint.

Glad RonB's wife has a better memory as to why not to go American than
he seemed to.

I hate to buy from another country,but if the American stuff is junk,
I am not about to help the big wheels in the US make the 100 million
plus dollars a year for doing it
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How many Pintos and Vegas do you see around these days,as "antiques"?
You do see a few Corvairs,but none of the others. They were all crap.

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