Reply #105: I haven't bought Detroit Rust in a long time. [View All]

[tomreedtoon]

It horrified my late father that, after a Ford Falcon and a Ford Galaxie 500, that I would choose to buy a Toyota Corolla. And then he drove it. He hadn't seen an American car with as much physical comfort and as durable a power train. And I told him, "You won't see an American car like that."

I did, for a while, drive the Chevy Nova that was actually a Toyota chassis with an American logo slapped on it. Almost as good as a real Toyota, but just a hair lousier.

And yes, I have had to rent American rust-buckets. Awkward, built badly, uncomfortable seats, non-ergonomic, engines that sounded like they were on the verge of suicide. I couldn't imagine someone plunking down money to buy one of these beasts new.

And before you start yelling "anti-union" to me, let me offer sympathy to you. You union guys just built the cars. You didn't design, market or promote them. And now, your welfare is tied to the corporate assholes who made American cars the joke of the automotive world. You have to support bailing them out for the sake of your own survival. That situation is bound to make you cranky.

Or...are you still buying the raw sewage from the executives that the public will start buying SUV's in mass quantities any day soon? (If people do, it will only be to replace the houses from which they've been evicted.)