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- From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
- Subject: Re: CONSUMER REPORTS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.000435.10116@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 00:04:35 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Nov15.232604.5712@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) writes:
- >[yet another article rooting for vehicles made by domestic manufacturers:
- > GM, Chrysler, Ford]
- >but don't get the wrong idea. the saturn SC is one of the most competitive
- >cars in the IMSA firestone firehawk series. the 1991 champion
- >in the touring class was a saturn.
-
- I seem to have some cloggin' in my noggin'.
-
- This is the upteenth post by Mr. Chen, supporting vehicles made by the
- domestics, but Mr. Chen himself bought an Acura Integra. No matter how
- you slice that vehicle, it was not engineered in America, was not manufactured
- here, and was not assembled here.
-
- Come on. Let's be consistent. Mr. Chen sounds like all those Toyota
- salesmen who harp and harp about how great Toyota is, but if you ask
- them what kind of car _they_ drive, they say that they drive Honda.
- Sheesh.
-
- By the way, I personally think that American assembly and manufacturing
- of vehicles suck. American-assembled Japanese cars have creaks, squeaks,
- and rattles, but Japanese-assembled Japanese cars are as solid as a,
- well, an Integra. (Yes, I drive an American-assembled "Japanese"
- car. I wanted to give an American a job, so sue me. Yeah. I hate
- creaks, squeaks, and rattles. I just wish that someone could tell me
- how to get rid of them for free.)
-
- But don't get me wrong. I still think that Japanese direct/indirect
- barriers to American cars are reprehensible and should be met with swift
- and tough retaliation.
-
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