On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:26:25 -0500, "Mike Hunter"
<mikehunt2@lycos/com> wrote:

>Can we assume that apparently you have not seen the numerous reports that
>show many of the domestic are BEATING some of the imports in customer
>quality surveys?

I have seen the Consumer Reports Survey which shows that Toyota and
Honda are far more reliable than anything made by the "Big Three".
(Hard to call them the Big Three when Chrysler ranks fifth in sales.)

> Have you seen the CAFE lists that show many domestics
>are as good or better than imports, of the same size, when it comes to fuel
>economy and some domestic, with V6 engines, are doing nearly as good as
>imports with only 4cy engines?

That's nice, if questionably true. But GM and Ford would already be
in liquidation if it had to rely on those cars. The only thing that
has kept them floating over the last decade has been the 10-12 mpg
dinosaurs that are on the brink of extinction.

GM just put a hold on the factory which was supposed to build the
vaporware Volt. What does that say?





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>"CharlesTheCurmudgeon" <n5hsr@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> "Rock Hardson" <RH232@yahooo.com> wrote in message
>> news:494d1c7a$1$1548$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers .com...
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews
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>>> I suspect once the US auto industry gets on a level field the foriegn
>>> companies may be in for an ass kicking.
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>> Sorry, you are WRONG. US auto makers do not encourage the culture of
>> quality that the Japanese auto makers embraced about 50 years ago. Until
>> the American automakers demonstrate they are truly commited to quality and
>> not just dependent on whether the head of the company is commited to
>> quality or not, there's not only going to not be a level playing field,
>> there's not gong to be any play.
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>> And since you are obviously a UAW shill, you go plonk in the night.
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>> Sir Charles the Curmudgeon
>> Friends don't let friends vote Democrat.
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