what is “Words of Power?”

“buying an American car is like getting a stripper and trying to make her your wife?”

You can’t even form a regular sentence correctly. Don’t attempt to make analogies. What’s that one supposed to mean?

Sharpie: Most people who view things objectively will say the current focus is a solid car. The company Iwork for uses them as fleet cars. It’s a knockout. Some may prefer the styling of another car, but looking at it objectively, you’ve got to say its a good buy.

Resale value is proof of reliability? Then explain why Suzuki or Mazda aren’t getting higher resale? Incidentally they are Japanese brands too and still import some models from there. You obviously don’t know a lot about Focus. 05+ Focus has become one of the most reliable car, and hence, Ford’s logic as to keep the old platform running.

Your superior Honda just settled a suit arising out of defective windshield of the Element due to design flaw. It’s a conspiracy according to you. Keep generalizing! It’s what you do best because your pea-size brain just can’t handle the things we call details. Best you can do is to see things in black and white while everyone else, even the monkeys, have moved onto 24bit color.

Jack, your statement is partially true, in that if a foreign brand establishes a new factory state-side, there are still kinks to iron out, although these tend to be assembly related rather than design flaw.

Your opinion that Japanese cars are “****ty” looking (great grammar btw) is subjective. I think that Japanese cars look better and more consumers are buying Japanese cars over the domestics so there is something to that. I have never had a 92 CIvic or Celica but I’m sure they are worth more than a Cavalier or a 92 Saturn SL1

Having a name like Lack luster makes sense if you buy domestics. I buy the best car for the money and they just happen to come from the Japanese. I also base a car on looks and performance after the resale reliability and build quality. Once again if I even considered the Americans they lose again. Since you like women analogies ,buying an American car is like getting a stripper and trying to make her your wife. They look great but they are lazy and unreliable. Keep basing things on looks Mack duster, I’m sure you will get far in life lol

As for your pathetic spelling and grammar, import monkey, again, you are out of your league. Stick to your 1992 Civics and 1989 Celicas, loser … they have got to be worth something, right?

My line of thinking helped write that book you keep referring to … good to see the concept of ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’ working like a charm. Maybe one day you can be half as good as me .. maybe.

How much do you value getting a car you actually WANT, then having money to invest?

Fluffer: Nine trillion? That’s how much you overpaid for your accord.
You’d buy something that didn’t appeal to you? You’re twisted, man. I hope you find peace with yourself.

If I was to buy into your argument of higher resale value on universally depreciating capital I’d be buying your beloved but bland, uninspired and flawed Japanese hump-holes … fortunately, I buy what APPEALS to me, most Hondas and Toyotas do not, and I invest with returns of multiples in the inverse of any car’s lost value. Your savings of a few thousand after a few years in lower depreciation is pennies versus my investment gains.

But continue to justify your position here, peasant, because your job in life is to convert the remaining unenlightened. Seems their shoes would fit you perfectly.

The 2005 Focus is just as unreliable as the 2002-2004 and the resale value is hell. I know you dont plan on selling bc you need to pay for your trailer lot

Import monkey ? Impressive, you called me an animal wow

JJT you are just a liar You said your Honda didnt make it past 90k and now your Toyota didnt make it past 100k but your Chevy made it to 9 trillion miles with no problems ? Yea right

Sharpie: foreign-based companies have the advantage of keeping the first-year bugs out of the U.S.

And judging from your comment about babying my Escort, you are saying you can abuse Civic a whole lot more? Please do me a favor, sign yourself up to some Civic forum and listen to the boy-ricers’ complaint. You can learn a thing or two from them.

You have to bring up the Focus, but what first year model doesn’t have kinks? I fault Ford for not being able to take care of them in a timely manner, but take an 05 Focus, they are reliable.

“It’s obvious you dont base cars on much if you drive an Escort lol”

It’s obvious you didn’t pass elementary English judging from your English, which leads to your sorry ass state of living in a trailer. You said it yourself.

Commodore – good post. Thanks – you saved me a lot of writing.

By the way, I drive both domestic and Japanese b/c I don’t buy cars based on brand name, except in the case of VW, that’s one brand I avoid like plaque till their reliability improves.

But don’t worry – I don’t blame you for wanting Lincoln to be like Acura-Lexus-Infiniti. You are so used to driving Japanese cars and, being that they all look the same, you are disappointed to see something that looks different. It’s almost odd to you to see a car that doesn’t have a boxy grille and angry-shaped headlights. But Lincoln does suck at the moment, however, Japanese is the last thing Lincoln should be trying to be.

The point is that at this point Toy is pretty much riding on their reputation which is constantly brought up in their brilliant advertising. Toy is good at marketing [period]. Look at the hype over worthless hybrids (I bet some of you fools think hybrids will save the world). Look at the hip, youthful Scion advertisements. They know how to sell themselves. So Ford made a great move by hiring this guy. I bet he is smart enough to hammer on some of the Ford’s positives such as being American, having non-bland designs, building some of the best trucks out there, establishing the NEXT Taurus as a respectable car again, and so on.