sharpie: you’re right, but I’d rather go muff-diving than test-diving

“People are so mad at the Japanese for making better cars that they are looking for things to complain about.”

If I were mad, it’d be at honda for making the worst car I ever owned.

” It’s highly unlikely that a person who buys a MB or I——-i is going to jump ship to Cadillac.”

It’s possible that a Datson owner might move up to a ‘Lac. Or that a Benz owner might go to Caddy.
More likely though, is a Benz owner switching to BMW or re-upping with Benz

“The problem lies with GM not making a competitive product.” What?

GM has less recalls in 07 that’s it Every other year they have had millions of recalls for everything from safety equipment, roofs flying off, power steering to faulty brakes You are harping on this year bc that is the only decent argument that you have. The year is not up yet.

Beat their biggest competitors from Japan AND Europe- The new CTS won a shootout on Edmunds wow! How so in what sales, resale & reliability? Is it selling more than the C class or G35 or 3 series??? If I were to compare the resale of the previous models which car is worth more? In ten years is the CTS worth more or more reliable or even more attractive? Valiant effort the CTS is nice but this comparison wont help anything. It has nothing to do with the price of rice. It’s highly unlikely that a person who buys a MB or Infiniti is going to jump ship to Cadillac.

Engine sludge comes from lack of maintence. People are so mad at the Japanese for making better cars that they are looking for things to complain about. My 800k argument from GM recalls was for a faulty braking system. That is serious. The problem lies with GM not making a competitive product

Who still buy cars based on country of origin and brand? Different car companies are better at different market segments, so why would you limit your purchase to one car company or group them according to coutry of origin? Sure you have preference, but test-diving is believing!

My engine sludge argument is BS? Ok, let me play that game. Your 800,000 recalls or whatever from five years ago are complete BS.

And if you want to talk problems in the last decade – let’s look at the sludge affecting 3.5 million Toys. I think that pretty much says it all

So why couldn’t Nissan have recalled these vehicles sooner? Why couldn’t Toyota and Honda made their recalls sooner? While tripleonefive talks about how many vehicles are recalled, what’s important to me is the speed of which these recalls are made.

6-10 years is pure shame to me.

Putz. <—– got it?

jJay: the Fluffer is a communist dog. he’s bitter because this is the land of opportunity, not the land of handounts.

Also, I’ll speculate that he hates domestics because the girl(?) of his jackoff fantasies ditched him at the prom for a guy in a camaro.

Of all the Nissan owners I’ve known, only one had a problem with his car, a Pathfinder. certainly a Blazer or Exploder of the same vintage would be a better truck.

Is it recall season, or what?

plus i was trying to make a joke, but i guess you have your head so far up your own ass, you couldnt see that.
its called a sense of humor….go to your local Walmart and laugh at the people there to get your sense of humor back….putts

Autonut, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan do NOT sell more than 50% of cars unless maybe you dissect cars into specific subcategories. Add to that people rake on GM & Ford for common platform architectures all day, but when the imports do it then it is somehow “understandable” plus going by what I see on the road the Japanese cars are not serving longer lifespans than their US-make counterparts. I see plenty of 80s and early 90s domestic makes on the road each day, and proportionately quite a few more than I do older Toyotas and Hondas. Don’t get me wrong – Toyota and Honda make good long-lasting cars also, but it is only a false perception (albeit a damaging and commonly-held one) that they are particularly better than Ford and GM.

Yeah, GM recalled 2 million “old suvs” and vehicles too. It sounds like your making an exception when you say “well these are old SUV’s and GM recalled 2 MILLION”.

And very strong words to use. “Import hater patriotic ass” and a bunch of x’s…

Now I buy whatever car suits me, and does the job best, but it seems like you have some problem with patriotism, that’s ALL I ever hear coming from you.

Your just so damn negative, and sometimes even biased. You need to go find yourself something else to do in your freetime, get rid of this ego you seem to have, cool down. You don’t have to try to sound threatening and absent from sanity to get a point out, not everyones disagreeing with you but damn… When you’ve got an ego like that, who’s going to?

Anyway, add VW’s incessant recalls to the list and the imports make a clean sweep of being the biggest pieces of crap out there besides Chrysler. It’ll just take a few years for the non-objective folk out there to realize that their hatred of domestic makes is unfounded and costing them money. In the meantime I can still get great cars for less and bank a bit more.