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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:30:48 GMT
From: Nutmegger<Nutmeggernopsameja.com>
Subject: Re: Saab and GMC


Jeremy Brown says... > >All Four major US companies made cars that were gas guzzling behemoths and >were, to quote Ralph Nader, unsafe at any speed. Oh yes, I can see that now. I was just very young in the 70's and don't remember all this stuff. >Quality was way too low, in >fact Chrysler went bankrupt from the lack of quality. They did? >Ford had their memorable Pinto Fiasco (it blew up in when hit in the rear >end). Oh yeah - I know that one well. Stupid design. >GM came out with the Chevy Citation (oft called the Shit-tation), I remember those god awful things, so ugly! >The smallest of the four big US car makers, AMC/Jeep, actually closed >up shop and was adsorbed by Renault. Chrysler later bought it from Renault, >and thus it is now part of Daimler-Chrysler. So I take it they were out of bankruptcy at this point. Do you know what pulled them out? >Here in New England we still >see a few of the old AMC Eagles and Gremlins still puttering around. I'm in New England - I see them once/twice a year. <On a side note - I went to school with a Jeremy Brown, I'm wondering if you are him? In Ct 1st & 2nd grade - we were best friends> >It also >lead to some seriously xenophobic reactions from many US Citizens who felt >that the people that bought these brands were traitors, especially those who >bought Japanese and German cars. My Grandfather's frame of thought. He would never buy a foreign car even when we told him they weren't made in America anymore. He drove my Aunt's new Toyota, loved it so much Guess what? Traded in the Ford (which was nothing but junk from day one) >I still see an occasional >bumper sticker that reads "Hungry? Try eating your rice burner!" You do?! I've never seen that around here, thankfully. I don't see the gun racks in pick-up truck windows either, not like down south. >Many still associate Mercades with Hitlers infamous limo. Ok, this really bothers me and I don't know why. I am not Jewish, but I see them driving around in BMW's (who made the ovens) and Mercedes and I wonder how the hell can they do that?!?! I don't even want to give them my money for what they've done. They drive VW's, give their money to companies who stabbed their people in the back - who used genocide against them!! Sorry - it is so off topic, but I think about these things and wonder WTF? >Most US >citizens forget that Henry Ford distributed a book with every new car he >sold during the teens and twenties that was a diatribe against the Jews. >Hitler in fact used this book as a partial basis for "Mien Kampf" and >awarded Ford a medal for it. I never knew that, another reason for me not to like Ford. I just can't stand the company. > >Enough on my opinions of the US car makers. We do some right and some wrong, >like anyone else. Yes, but I've often felt that as Americans different standards apply and I'm glad Nader nailed them on that. Money is the ~Only~ driving force at the risk of thousands of people's lives. It just plain sucks. It is still going on too. Probably always will. ~J~

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