01-30-2011, 12:52 PM
Well, if you want to stick with 'American', and that is in quotes because some of the more popular Japanese cars are built more by American workers than some of the cars of the Big 3 (Versa though is not one of them), the consider Ford. Unlike GM and Chrysler, they seem to have realized BEFORE it was too late that loyalty only goes so far, people do nto want to drive junk just to say they are buying American.
Or the heck with it, get a good car that gets great mileage and enjoy the savings. We've been pushed where we are due to idiotic government regualtion that made the SUV the most profitable type of vehicle coupled with a huge ma,rketign campaign to make us ethink bigger is ALWAYS better - now the US automakers have to reverse all their previous rhetoric and try to convince peopel that smaller more efficient cars are better. Something most reasonign people figured out on their own, but still the masses bought bigger and bigger, more and more guzzlign SUVs because it was the 'in' thing to do. Unless you are hauling a ton of stuff around on a farm, the only thing I think SUV stands for is Stupid Useless Vehichle. Giant, poor gas mileage, poor handling, and 99% of them never go off road, except when the nut behind the wheel has been so lulled into believing AWD means invincible and runs off the side of a snowy road and down an embankment. We've gotten people so paranoid about driving on anythign but a clear day that they think they MUST have AWD. It's within my driving lifetime when FWD was a rarity and 4WD/AWD was found pretty much only on Jeeps - we still managed to get around just fine with RWD. Of course we used to have things called snow tires for use in the winter in areas where it snowed, not today's crop of so-called 'all season' tires which are mediocre in all seasons at best, not excelling at any one thing. Amazing how nowdays it's incredible to have a hybrid car that gets 50mpg - 30 years ago we had cars that could do that on regular gas. Progress? Really?
Ok, enough ranting, I have plenty more but I'll stop here. Bottom line, get the car that fits your needs, not the one that you've been 'conditioned' to get.
--Randy
Or the heck with it, get a good car that gets great mileage and enjoy the savings. We've been pushed where we are due to idiotic government regualtion that made the SUV the most profitable type of vehicle coupled with a huge ma,rketign campaign to make us ethink bigger is ALWAYS better - now the US automakers have to reverse all their previous rhetoric and try to convince peopel that smaller more efficient cars are better. Something most reasonign people figured out on their own, but still the masses bought bigger and bigger, more and more guzzlign SUVs because it was the 'in' thing to do. Unless you are hauling a ton of stuff around on a farm, the only thing I think SUV stands for is Stupid Useless Vehichle. Giant, poor gas mileage, poor handling, and 99% of them never go off road, except when the nut behind the wheel has been so lulled into believing AWD means invincible and runs off the side of a snowy road and down an embankment. We've gotten people so paranoid about driving on anythign but a clear day that they think they MUST have AWD. It's within my driving lifetime when FWD was a rarity and 4WD/AWD was found pretty much only on Jeeps - we still managed to get around just fine with RWD. Of course we used to have things called snow tires for use in the winter in areas where it snowed, not today's crop of so-called 'all season' tires which are mediocre in all seasons at best, not excelling at any one thing. Amazing how nowdays it's incredible to have a hybrid car that gets 50mpg - 30 years ago we had cars that could do that on regular gas. Progress? Really?
Ok, enough ranting, I have plenty more but I'll stop here. Bottom line, get the car that fits your needs, not the one that you've been 'conditioned' to get.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
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