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- From: henry@bms.com (Henry Mednikoff)
- Subject: Re: Whining about buying American cars
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.160228.14653@synapse.bms.com>
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- Organization: Bristol-Myers Squibb PRI
- References: <1eh1bvINNmv3@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:02:28 GMT
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- In article 1eh1bvINNmv3@gap.caltech.edu, lxrosser@cco.caltech.edu (Alex Rosser) writes:
- >jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost) writes:
- >
- >>WRT the Japanese vs American argument, I don't consider it relevant
- >>anymore. I pointedly avoided looking at American-built cars and
- >>kicked myself later for not looking at the Saturns. It's become
- >>obvious that American cars *can* compete effectively with the
- >>Japanese, it just took the big three a long time to decide to do it.
- >
- >
- > One thing that gets me is, if American car companies can build
- >cars of comperable quality to imports(and I prefer European to
- >Japanese and Japanese to American) why does Saturn have to make
- >such a big deal about being an American car company that is building
- >cars that are on par with the Japanese quality wise?
- >
- > For me, what it boils down to is, if I'm paying for a car I'm going to
- >buy the best car for my money. I don't give a damn where it's built as
- >long as it's built well. And right now, it seems to me that while the
- >quality of American cars is improving it's got miles to go.
- > -Alex Rosser
- > lxrosser@cco.caltech.edu
- >
-
-
- I agree with Alex 100 %.
- The only thing I would like to add is the price of the car.
- Japanese cars are overpriced.
- Sometimes it makes more scence to buy an American car for less money than Japanese car,
- getting more value per $.
- But at the same time I had nothing but problems with my brand new Olds. Toronado..
- I had to get rid of it after I reached 80.000 mi.
- Now, I have a Honda, which has no appeal and luxury of Toronado, neither its power,
- but IT IS SUPER RELIABLE & ROBUST AFTER 2.5 YEARS & 103,000 MI.
- What else do I need ?
- I would like to see GM begging me to change my heart & to become more patrotic.
- (They might succeed if the price is right.. and the quality is at least 50% of Honda's.).
-
- Henry.
-