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And the irony is............. Posted by MI-Roger [Email]  (#882) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from MI-Roger) on Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:16:36
In Reply to: American SUV, Blake, Sun, 13 Oct 2013 12:37:22 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
That a suprising number of "American" SUV vehicles are made in Mexico by employees making so little money that they are given free breakfast every morning by the American Managers so that these employees will not faint from hunger and fall into the machinery.
This is the truth for GM's Mexican operations and is not an exageration!
I understand the problem you are facing. That is why I often had to walk a half mile from the unpaved "Foreign Vehicles" parking lot to the Main Lobby at US located GM Assembly plants in my former job. All the way walking past Escalade ESV and Chevy Avalanche vehicles which are 100% Mexican built, and a number of other SUVs and pick-ups which may have been built by impoverished people with no benefits. But hey! At least the name plate was a US Brand.
Meanwhile, my Saab was built in Sweden by workers with pay and benefits approximately equal to the UAW counterparts, and the profits flowed back to Detroit.
But to answer your question, $3K to $4K will not buy much as prices remain irrationally high even for beater vehicles in this genre. I would steer toward anything with a Chevy small-block V8 engine. This engine has proven itself to be reliable over its 60 year history.
Ford and Jeep may have equivalents, but two distinctly different 351 Ford V8 engines has always baffled me as to which one is better (Cleveland or Windsor), and the best Chrysler motor may have been their their Slant-6 and 318 V8 engines.
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