Is It True? Study Indicates That Some Of You Won't Consider A Car Based On Nationality

Is It True? Study Indicates That Some Of You Won't Consider A Car Based On Nationality
Detroit automakers have long abandoned their “Buy American” campaigns, but the public’s interest in bringing more manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. seems to be paying off.  Nearly one in seven people who bought new cars last year said they avoided foreign-badged cars specifically because where they were made, according to a J.D. Power study published Thursday.



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FijianFijian - 1/27/2012 2:45:43 PM
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Most Indians and Asians will not even look at an American product.They have this thinking that the Japanese and Europeans make more reliable and more advanced cars.However their butts arrive here in mostly American built planes from all over the world.How come the Germans and Japanese cannot make planes? This is where reliability is extremely important.Even Canada and Brazil meke good planes.Airbus (Germany,France) use mostly American or British components.


BrownsGoBackBrownsGoBack - 1/28/2012 7:36:47 PM
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"Japan is not allowed to build planes after WW2"


But they're allowed to build rockets? Nothing is stopping Japan from trying to engineer a commercial airliner except competitiveness.


BrownsGoBackBrownsGoBack - 1/27/2012 7:32:58 PM
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From what I've seen, Asians here overwhelmingly buy Asian cars. For example, my Asian neighbors (from Hong Kong) have three Japanese cars.


85bmw745i85bmw745i - 1/29/2012 1:20:22 AM
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I agree 100%


DWONGSWONGDWONGSWONG - 1/28/2012 3:13:20 AM
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BillfromBuckhead,
I know that you are an Obama supporter and Republican hater, but you always seem to make comments based on emotions and rarely use facts. This 99% versus the 1% is divisive and dumb. Do you know who are the biggest donors to Obama? It is Wall Street millionaires and billionaires--the 1% folks. I'm speaking as an independent voter, who is fiscally conservative and socially moderate (or socially liberal to some conservative).
As far as GM and Ford products, they've come a long way due to Japanese and German products kicking their tails in quality and refinement. My family immigrated to America in 1980. We wanted to support America, so the first five cars we bought were American cars (Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Chevy, Pontiac). All of them had multiple issues that cost us too much to maintain. We bought a Toyota in 1988 and never looked at another American car again, except for a Jeep (another mistake). My wife had the same experience after her family owned two American cars (Buick and Dodge). She now refuses to buy any American cars.


85bmw745i85bmw745i - 1/29/2012 1:22:42 AM
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Bill, normally I disagree with you on almost everything you say, but I am fair and open and I am with you on this one.


lycaonslycaons - 1/28/2012 10:40:49 AM
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Lay off BillfromBuckhead will ya..he just got done puffing the magic dragon and can remember where the brake pads go on the Chevy Sonic..


dlindlin - 1/28/2012 11:37:32 AM
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'Some' of you?.... MOST of you!


kaze2575kaze2575 - 1/28/2012 4:42:33 PM
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Buy American, buy Ford!!! Made in Mexico!!!!! Yay!!!!!


FijianFijian - 1/30/2012 2:26:47 PM
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The Technology in GM cars are way ahead of the Japanese and Germans.Onstar itself kicks them sideways and then things like Heads up display (which they have now copied),Magnetic shocks that adjust 1000 times a second and the list goes on.


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