Please tell me how I can pull a boat or an RV with a Prius or a Civic? Keep buying foreign cars and see what happens. We are pushing manufacturing out of the US. I can't stand to drive a little car.
I'm with you, even my "little car" is a 6 cyl. Jeep Wrangler that only gets 17 mpg!! But I love it- just hope I'm able to get another one when its time for a replacementPlease tell me how I can pull a boat or an RV with a Prius or a Civic? Keep buying foreign cars and see what happens. We are pushing manufacturing out of the US. I can't stand to drive a little car.
It's actually pushing manufacturing jobs to other states. Toyota's Georgetown, KY and Princeton, IN plants have recently added capacity. I'm not against supporting domestic auto companies, I drive a GM truck. If I were to buy another truck, it would definitely be from either Ford or GM. My next vehicle will be a car, though, since I don't need a truck anymore. Where it's made will probably have some impact on my decision, so I'll probably go with the Camry, made right here in Kentucky.Please tell me how I can pull a boat or an RV with a Prius or a Civic? Keep buying foreign cars and see what happens. We are pushing manufacturing out of the US. I can't stand to drive a little car.
Nick, my warped mind wants to know if they now haul 'shine out there in Toyota's.It's actually pushing manufacturing jobs to other states. Toyota's Georgetown, KY and Princeton, IN plants have recently added capacity. I'm not against supporting domestic auto companies, I drive a GM truck. If I were to buy another truck, it would definitely be from either Ford or GM. My next vehicle will be a car, though, since I don't need a truck anymore. Where it's made will probably have some impact on my decision, so I'll probably go with the Camry, made right here in Kentucky.
I'm not saying you need to buy a Prius or Civic, I am saying there was a waiting list (?!?!) for small, fuel efficient cars back when the Prius was first introduced - clearly public demand was high for those and GM et al. failed (imo) to keep up with the competition.Please tell me how I can pull a boat or an RV with a Prius or a Civic?
I fully plan toKeep buying foreign cars and see what happens.
I've owned Domestic cars and trucks all my life until 2007. For 32 years I bought Ford and GM. In 2007 I bought the Nissan Xterra and still have my Ford. I won't be able to form an opinion on the Nissan for a couple of more years. It's still under 50K on the ODO.I know about those glove box latches, this one wasn't the assemblers fault, that one comes from the engineers who saved a few cents on it, they bought the springs from a ball point pen factory.
Got one on my 90 Ford.
Used to see a lot of shoddy assembling years ago when I was a body man, I'm talking 70's and 80's on this, worst one was Fiat.Did a lot of warrenty work in a GM dealership in the early 80's, most flustrating job I ever had.
Hope they got their act together now, if not, Chysler is doomed.
I totally agree with this. The a-hole that lives next door works on the line at Ford. Knowing him will make me not want to buy a Ford. What a dumb ass!Thankfully they are moving this weekend!It's not about Domestic versus foreign. It's about the business of building cars. the big domestic automakers were OK with paying workers 65-80 K a year plus retirements for a job you can learn to do in 4 weeks. This is pure insanity. You have to take a good long hard look at what a job is worth in terms of salary and bennies. If foreign owned car makers are able to produce nice cars without the UAW wages, where was the surprize in all of this. How the hell can you compete with higher labor costs? You can't. The unions knew this, the shareholders knew this, everyone knew this.
If you read the other columns in the chart:oh please...the #1 selling model in the US last year was the F-150 truck.....Silverado was in the top ten.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say about the marketing. You mention that they should not be marketing the trucks......which are still their best sellers even if thay sold less last year.If you read the other columns in the chart:
The F150 lost 18.7% of its sales from the year prior, the Silverado dropped 25.9%, the Dodge Ram dropped 26%.
The small cars like Camry (#2) rose 2%, Civic rose 20%, Altima rose 16%, Ford Focus rose 35%.
So yes, trucks still sell, but they aren't selling at rates they used to, and small cars are jumping up the list. The first US-made small car on that list is the Chevy Impala, which managed to drop in sales 15% (and rank one spot to number 8).
It's very telling, imo, that the Focus rose so much and it was the one small US car I can remember being agressively marketed last year (re: commercials where the driver is talking to the car "Play: Green Day" etc.).
The whole list:
RANK VEHICLE 2008 2007 '07 RANK %Chng
1 Ford F-Series P/U 235,924 290,282 1 -18.7
2 Toyota Camry 198,309 193,900 3 +2.3
3 Chevy Silverado-C/K P/U 197,030 265,941 2 -25.9
4 Honda Accord 166,158 153,431 6 +8.3
5 Honda Civic 164,994 137,288 8 +20.2
6 Toyota Corolla 152,308 165,722 4 -8.1
7 Nissan Altima 133,465 114,318 9 +16.7
8 Chevrolet Impala 122,281 144,541 7 -15.4
9 Dodge Ram P/U 112,795 154,143 5 -26.8
10 Ford Focus 105,499 77,732 15 +35.7
11 Chevrolet Cobalt 93,362 79,257 14 +17.8
12 Honda CR-V 89,017 84,464 11 +5.4
13 Toyota Prius 79,675 76,747 16 +3.8
14 Ford Escape 76,966 73,058 17 +5.3
15 Chevrolet Malibu 74,925 59,627 26 +25.7
16 Ford Fusion 73,197 66,260 20 +10.5
17 GM Pontiac G6 71,062 59,063 28 +20.3
18 GMC Sierra P/U 70,765 84,106 12 -15.9
19 Toyota Tundra 66,278 61,113 23 +8.5
20 Ford Econoline/Club Wagon 63,869 80,641 13 -20.8
Just a do-gooder, pushing an agenda.
I think we agree more than we disagree, as I'm NOT in favor of the government giving GM or Ford ANY money.If a company is doing things wrong and their sales drop......that's capitalism.
The government propping them up and deciding which models they should build is wrong IMO.
Very wrong.
The government.....under any of the recent or current administration is corrupt and inept at everything else they do.....and now they can make decisions about how a car company should run?
That's crazy.
If people want to drive small cars then let the market dictate and companies react accordingly.