Yes, I'm a traitor- I bought a foreign auto

[PM_Mama00]

I think "being a traitor" when you live near Detroit has a different meaning. By buying from the Big 3, we're supporting a large majority of our friends' and families' jobs. Everyone I know gets some kind of employee plan from one of the 3. Personally, I would feel guilty buying foreign, but that's just me. I'm not gona get on someone because they bought foreign.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

I think "being a traitor" when you live near Detroit has a different meaning. By buying from the Big 3, we're supporting a large majority of our friends' and families' jobs. Everyone I know gets some kind of employee plan from one of the 3. Personally, I would feel guilty buying foreign, but that's just me. I'm not gona get on someone because they bought foreign.

I agree. That's why I got on Pika... The others, I read them and thought "yeah, but you're not in Detroit so it doesn't count"

[BuckeyeTriDelta]

My Pontiac was built with all US parts right here in Ohio. That was a big reason why I bought it; I was supporting works in my own state. Since then, I have had to have Fuel injector #4 replaced and my wiper motor replaced this was all before 32,500 which is where I am at now.
I'm not opposed to buying "foreign," I just got the best deal money wise from a US automaker. Both my mother and father drive Mercedes and my fiancé drives a Honda, but between my sister and BIL we actually equal out US and foreign cars (they also drive Pontiacs).

[AOII_LB93]

My first car was an '84 Honda Civic hatchback..when I got it it had 104K(in 1992) on it, when I sold it it had 200K(in '99). The only problem I ever had was replacing the clutch once. In '99 I got the Civic EX. I've got 135K on it now, and will drive it until I need a new car. Never had one problem with it. I love my hondas, too bad the new ones just aren't nice looking.

My husband has driven American(Chevy El Camino, and 2 Ford Exploders- yeah yeah, Explorer, but whatever) until his most recent car, a Toyota 4-Runner LTD. I asked him if he would ever buy another American car and he said "No way, German or Japanese engineering from here on out."

My mom also has had ridiculous problems with every American car she has owned (Chevy Citation, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, Ford T-bird, Pontiac whatever it is). The only car she ever truly enjoyed and had few problems with was her BMW. She liked her Toyota a ton too...she's had it with American cars.

[PeppyGPhiB]

I bought my '99 Honda Civic new in Dec. 1998 and will be celebrating its 10th birthday this year. It's finally coming up on 100,000 miles and it drives almost like it's brand new. AND even the exterior and interior are in practically the same condition as when I bought it, despite the car spending almost two years in sea-salty Malibu and plenty more uncovered in rainy/blustery/sunny/snowy Seattle. The only work I've had to have done on it is routine maintenence, other than the exhaust manifold cracking at around 65k miles which the dealership covered under the standard warranty! The back brakes still have 60% left on them, and I just replaced the timing belt at 96k miles just because I didn't want to chance it. I will drive that car until it no longer drives, which will likely be another 100k miles. I always took it to the dealership up until the 80k miles mark, because I knew various systems were covered under the Honda warranty up to that point.

By contrast, my boyfriend, who grew up in Michigan, interned at Ford, and got his engineering degree from U. of M., drives a '99 Ford Mustang, which he bought because he had a sentimental attachment to it (it was the first car he ever learned to repair). Though our cars are the same age, you would never know it. His dashboard is coming loose, his driver seat came off the tracks a while ago, and now the knob that controls the back of his seat broke, so his seat reclines flat unpredictably. And it's had all kinds of mechanical problems. It is a pathetic excuse for a vehicle, and it costs a fortune to have the shop do work on it because of how poorly everything is laid out under the hood. He marvels at how clever Honda's engineering is. He is deciding now on whether to buy a Honda or Toyota and has decided he will never again buy an American car, even though he grew up in GM's/Ford's backyard. His first car was a Toyota, but he wanted to give Ford a chance, and they blew it.

We stopped at a Honda dealership the other day because we wanted to check out the new Accord and Pilot, and I looked up where the Pilot was made - 100% assembled in ALABAMA. The salesman told us that almost all Hondas sold in the U.S. now are majority assembled in the U.S.

[EtaPhiZTA]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

We stopped at a Honda dealership the other day because we wanted to check out the new Accord and Pilot, and I looked up where the Pilot was made - 100% assembled in ALABAMA. The salesman told us that almost all Hondas sold in the U.S. now are majority assembled in the U.S.

I LOVE my Honda Pilot. I bought my first one three years ago. Last Memorial Day, my husband and I went to the Honda dealership to see what changes had been made to the Pilot, and we ended up driving a new one home.

This is my third Honda; we have become loyal customers ever since my MIL survived a horrible roll-over accident where the police officer told us the Accord's construction was what saved her life.