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American Autos Need Not Apply
Podcast | January 10, 2009
AIM Chairman Don Irvine comments on why his next car won't be from Detroit.
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From the time I was 16, I’ve owned some 40 or more cars of different kinds for personal use - EVERY ONE AMERICAN!
High-powered muscle cars, smallish sports cars, large luxury cars, convertibles, “hardtop convertibles”, “pony cars”, practical station wagons, a pick-up truck or two, mid-sized and large SUVs and even three or four “custom” cars and a limousine - EVERY ONE AMERICAN - and NOT a single one with any significant “quality” or “reliability” or “performance” issues.
And I’ve never had a problem with any American new car dealer, i.e., Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, Ford, Mercury, Jeep, Chrysler and AMC.
Anyone who ideologically and automatically demeans American cars and praises only the foreign brands doesn’t really know what they’re talking about - nor do they know the checkered history of foreign makes in this county!
Even with all the talk about General Motors “failing” - GM sold 300,000 to 400,000 MORE cars in the U.S. in 2008 (the worst car selling year in recent history) than did Toyota!
The singular problem with the profitability of the auto industry in this country is that, by freely allowing in the foreign brands, the pie has been cut into too many slices.
Further, our annual imbalance in foreign trade is pushing $1 trillion - and 53% of the national debt is held in foreign countries - about 1/3 by China. The future of this country is being tied-up in mind-boggling debt owed to foreigners!
Time to - - BUY AMERICAN!
January 12 at 4:48 pm | #1 | Link
Don Irvine, does not know what he is talking about. His experience with American cars is going back 25 to 40 years. What a ASS he is. Keep buying Foreign products, eventualy we will have no manufacturing base, and the rest of our workers will be uneducated foreigners. This generation will not live to see it, but our grand children will, and they can say this is what I inherited from my ancestors.