GetterDragun wrote:Then don't post in car threads. If you are going to say "I hate Japanese cars, but will offer no reason why, so leave me alone." What do you expect?
I personally feel you are misinformed in whose actually profiting and which company benefits the American worker and am simply trying to give you the current picture of the Automotive Industry and not some 1978 version you are clinging on too. I'm not attacking you, just trying to educate.
And I am very well aware of the "situation."
But that has no effect on what I beleive. I do not dislike the cars, for the lastr time, but the companies. And it isn't just Japanese, it's europe too. I just have more of a distaste for Japanese. There is a reason, and here it is. But before I get there, I want to point something out. I was looking around Mazda's line up and it seems as the CX-7 is taking vibes from Euro-Ford.

Yes, I'm aware Ford owns Mazda. I think if Ford will look at the CX-7, and think about it, they may have something with the styling of euro stateside (under their banner).
Anyhoo, back to the situation at hand.
Here is my reason. After you read it, say whatever you will, do whatever you want, but I'm not changing it. You may call it absurd, but I've learned that I don't have take on whatever I hear. I will imply accept it and move on.
You know what? Look back, at when Toyota, nissan, and god nows who else first came here. They made good cars, they did things wonderfully, and I can say I enjoy the older cars. They are great, look fine next to our own US vehicles, didn't try to go over the top. Enjoyment of cars was important. Sure, competition was everywhere, but was much underscored by the heart of the industry worldwide.
Now look. Everyone is fighting over "gas mileage". These foreign companies have turned around the way they were, and their cars, creating all this crap over fuel economy. Yes, it was urged by our findings in field of science, and US companies did the same, I am sure of that, but these others kept going. The market has become a war over who bulds the most "enviornmental" car, but that's not all of the argument.
I'm not going solely on the "now" perspective.
I am disgusted by seeing battles between our counries auto-makers with handling, performance, and in the case of trucks, stuff like traction, and load capacity. They've pushed so far into our market we feel we must fight them back. We even went into their territory to showthem up. I do not want to see less cars, no. But no one does what they used to. the industry itself has become about technicalities. No one makes a car becasue it's a good idea, because it's enjoyable. It's about money now. I know this would've happened anyway, but the competition from impoert companies has grown to speed up the process. I may be clinging to "1978" but at least there was hope and good cars then. But by 1980, this whole process started, and it's getting harder to accept even the American companies. Not that I want to look down on them, but it's like people don't matter anymore.
I don't care about "profit" or who's on top. I want to see a time where we can make cars worth buying, driving, and keeping. Not his mess we have now. And it seems US companies are trying hardest to do so.