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Old 04-14-2009, 12:41 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube View Post
The Truth About Car's beef isn't with the "quality" of American cars but the quality of the industry which is in shambles, stagnated, and has terrible designs and visions and implementation and an incredible amount of waste.

Even if a company is making a good car (in terms of "initial quality" as J.D. Powers puts it), do you really want to make a $20,000 purchase from a company that is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy? Who's parts suppliers and supply chain are themselves bankrupt or in the process of falling to pieces?
And Japan is somehow better at the free market than North America? Japan is the poster boy of government controlled industry. They started their bailouts years ago.
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