Foreign cars
I dont care what anyone says, if its a foreign car the money goes to whomever puts the car out. The only reason thre are plants in the U.S.A. making Toyotas, Hondas, Subarus etc. is because the makers of thse cars are just dodging import/export taxes. By 90%assembly at their plants and ship them in boxes here on boats for final assembly they escape huge penalties. Its cheaper to just buy some land and build a plant, employ people and turn out these cars. If the market dries up they can just 'cut and run' leaving many unemployed and in the end the foreign car maker loses very little. I am not sticking up for the American automakers though. They have been shoving garbage at us to buy for YEARS and like sheep we all stand in line to buy it (baahhh baahhh) and then gripe about what a P.O.S. the car is. Now GM, Ma Mopar, and Ford have really pushed on cars being built in Canada and Mexico. All this has been about all along is to just bust the Union and make the big three richer. Just pure and simple greed! Really though cars have been being built out of Canada for decades and there has been an American/Japanese connection for decades too. Not to mention an American/German connection as well. Was a Ford Courier (I might have spelled that wrong) a Ford or a Mazda? Was that overhead cam 4 banger in some 69 Firebirds an American motor? What about the 72 to 77 Mercury Capri. Was it American or foreign? Was that 4 banger in the Pinto and Mustang II American or German. I missed a bunch but I think my point has been made. Lots of cars in the 70s were combo cars. I had some of them myself. My problem is mostly along the Japanese line of cars. I just dont like people, commercials etc. pushing it in my face how superior their product is compared to American cars. It also does not set well with me to hear about Toyotas being 'made in America by Americans'. Its true to a point but it falls in what I listed in the start of this response. I just like older AMERICAN cars and dont buy import. Plain and simple. Keep them!! We are just being exploited and in the end just more money going out of the country.
Import cars fall into this scenario to me. Importers of these import cars get rich and we stand in line like sheep (baahhh baahh) to buy their cars now. Same s#&t, different shovel. Meanwhile our car factories are closed or closing. Yeah they are making some money again but its only a matter of time before importers crank up the wick and snuff us out once more. In the end if an import car is so called 'superior' to an American car its because WE let it happen. Our government puts the crush on our cars with limitations and constant changes and again WE let it happen. Im sorry but this subject just ticks me off.