Harley Davidson, Ford, GM, and Maybe Chrysler again = Money stays in the States.
It's funny that just after 9-11 GM, Ford, and Chrysler stepped up to the plate and donated hundreds of cars, ambulances and fire trucks and at the same time all Honda and Toyota did was boast about their profits. Our own media is mainly responsible for the demise of the American manufacturing companies from all areas. Don't you know we Americans don't do anything right, some examples are cooking, tailoring, rug making, furniture making, teaching, now even the medical area is being scrutinized. If Americans keep believing everything we read we will all become part of the buried living. When companies or people fall our media is there to praise the very ones that they dissed in the past. Of course they always know what is better for you, it says so in the paper.
Just a couple of days ago the most looked at resource for Americans, CONSUMERS REPORTS, had an article about a , well here is the quote
The (toyota) Scion xD has the best predicted-reliability score for new cars. Its owners reported 80 percent fewer problems than the average new car in our survey.
WTF since when do we give ratings on a vehicle based on predictions! Then claim owners had 80% fewer problems on a future product.
If the American companies had the luxury of positive press releases we wouldn't be in this situation.
Biased meda is the sole blame for the demise of American companies. period
I'll continue to buy American whenever I can but that is becoming a scarcity nowadays.
GO HARLEY!