Do you think Americans should buy Foreign vehicles?
By kynni204
@kynni204 (2031)
United States
April 2, 2007 11:11pm CST
I have never owned an American vehicle. My mom gets pissed off because her husband and ex-husband work for Chrysler.Have dedicated all of their lives there. "Buy American" she says. "Keep the jobs herein the USA she says".I drive a Land Rover Discovery.I personally believe the foreign vehicles should not be made so available to us if it is going to cause such a problem. Of course we are going to want those cars and SUV's made elsewhere. My next vehicle is going to be the Range Rover. I have been applying the principles I've learned in "The Secret" I see myself in that Range Rover and a drop top Benz. What do you see yourself in??
2 responses
@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
3 Apr 07
There are very few if any truly "American made" cars anymore. I think if you researched assembly plants and parts manufacturers you'd find most are outside of the US. Even those brands typically considered as "all American" really aren't. While watching a NASCAR race, it was mentioned that only one of the four represented car campanies, Chevy, Ford, Dodge and Toyota, was actually American made. Do you know which one? Toyota.
I think at this point, the only way to be supportive of the "American workers" is to research to find a vehicle with the most "American made" components. I don't think it's a matter of having foreign cars more readily available. If anything that SHOULD have prompted the American car companies to try harder to keep their customers. Instead it seems like they just gave up.
I really don't have a "favorite dream car". It isn't something I think about.
@avonrep1 (1862)
• United States
3 Apr 07
American car companies, they don't really exist anymore.
And if American car companies want American's to buy them, they have to quit price gouging people. I own a KIA and I bought it because it was 10K cheaper than the cheapest American car I could find that was big enough for my family. So my response to people.(like my father in-law) It is their own fault, unions got to greedy and they shipped our jobs overseas, they didn't think about the long term effects.
And Chrysler stop being an American company March of 2000, my ex husband worked there, it is a foreign car company now. What little is done here is basically assembly now, most of the parts are made in Germany now.