GTcarz - Automotive forums for cars & trucks. - Re: Why aren't foreign cars as good as American cars?

"Blinty Dragon" <blinty@blinty.com> wrote in message
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> My reasons for hating foreign cars:

> 1. Although some of them are pretty nice, Most of them are ing
> ugly as hell.

Or you have bad test.

> 2. The only reason some of them are expensive is because it costs a
> shitload of money to ship the cars to America. If they were made in
> America, they would cost just as much or even less than the average
> American car.

Except that most cars with foreign brands are made here in the US.

> 3. Not everybody knows this, but Mercedes are (or used to be, I'm not
> sure if they still are) used as taxicabs in Germany.

Because they are durable.

> 4. I know that most foreign cars last longer than American cars, but
> while American cars are built to be strong, foreign cars are ing
> death traps God forbid you are involved in a serious accident. I can't
> even count how many car accidents I've seen in my lifetime where the
> American car only has minimal damage and the foreign car is ing
> smashed to pieces!!!!!!

How many car crashes have you seen where the little car was undamaged and
the big car was crushed. Perhaps the difference you are seeing is that big
cars make out better in crashes with little cars than the little cars.

> 5. Most foreign sports cars look like dog crap!!!!! Ever see the
> Toyota Celica, or the Mitsubishi Eclipse? If you think any of those
> foreign sports cars looks better than a Corvette or a Viper or a
> Camaro or a Trans Am, then you really have a ing serious
> problem!!!!!!!

Then don't buy them. Besides, we have already determined that you have bad
taste.

> 6. There are so many of them that look generic (especially most
> Toyotas). They obviously put no effort into trying to make these cars
> look nice.

Actually, a lot of effort. And a lot of effort to make the cars function
well, have goor ergonomics and last a long time.

> Well, that is my reasoning for hating foreign cars. It is no surprise
> to me that most of the brainwashed teens flock to these ing
> foreign cars like the sheep that they are.

You mean the ones brainwashed by good tastes, function and quality?

> If that's not bad enough, a
> lot of them take a lot of time and spend a lot of their drug money to
> "hook them up" with the latest pointless waste-of-money for the
> engine and the body so they can make their cars look like something
> out of The Fast and the Furious. Look, don't get me wrong. Some of my
> friends have done this to their cars and they actually came out pretty
> cool, but most people go overboard.

Again, overboard is a matter of taste.

>Yes, let's all go and sup up our
> cars so we can all drag race on a ing busy street.

Gee, and this has what to do with foreign cars?

>Well, I'll say
> this to all these idiots: When your suped up Mitsubishi is wrapped
> around a tree and they need the jaws of life to pry you out of the
> ing car, you're going to wish you hadn't flushed all that money
> down the toilet, cause when you recouperate from the accident, you're
> going to find yourself working three jobs to pay for your hospital
> bills, unless of course your insurance covers stupidity!!!

Actually, car insurance covers stupidity. That is why it is called
"no-fault."

> Anyway, to sum it all up, I would take a strong American car over a
> weak-ass foreign car anyday!

So would I. But I would take a strong foreign car over a weak-ass American
anyday, too. And, apparantly a lot of other people.

> That way, I'll feel really safe and
> secure that there's not as much of a chance of me being trapped in a
> smashed up car in the middle of Interstate 95 with 18-wheelers
> whizzing past me every ing second!

I think in a American car vs. 18 wheeler crash, the car loses.

All the best,

Jeff
Proud owner of a Ford Contour.