![]() ![]() America was back in the race for dominance in the auto industry. I too was duped by the pleas of Lee Iacocca and the throngs to "Buy American." I actually sold Chryslers in the 1980s and extolled the quality commitment to more than one skeptical tire-kicker. Gridlock, I urge you to stand fast on the home front and buy American, not just in the auto market, but in all goods! The job you save may be yours! DIRK A. Accidents on some, routine maintenance on all, but no horror stories.ĭr. Not one of us has ever experienced a problem. We'd be fools to buy anything but a new Toyota.īest of luck car-wise - you deserve a break! SUZANNE MELANCON BurkeĪ quick check in our families reveals that we own 14 American cars - six Fords, five Chryslers and three General Motors machines. I regret to say we abuse the heck out of them, but they never let us down. My husband and I have purchased, or have influenced the purchase of 17 Toyotas among family members. If you're serious about buying a new car, may I suggest a Toyota? It will be a long time before I will squeeze into a Japanese car and purchase it. It was a good friend of mine who called ME last fall when his wonderful Honda left his family stranded on the Dulles Access Road. All are solid, dependable cars that have NEVER had any major repairs. We have a 26-year-old Oldsmobile with 122,000 miles, a 22-year-old Buick with 112,000 miles a 10-year-old Chevrolet with 83,000 miles and a five-year-old Chevrolet with 59,500. Gridlock:Įnough American car bashing already! Whoever said that Iacocca builds the best American cars anyway? My wife and I own four American cars and would own more if we had the parking space! All four still have their original engine, transmission and paint. The volume of responses topped even the should-we-have-HOV-lanes survey (also about evenly split), except that people were more impassioned on this one. To some readers, I might as well have burned an American flag. I suggested that maybe it was time to buy a Japanese-built car. While Chrysler Chairman Lee (So what if my company lost $800 million last year, I got my $4.5 million compensation) Iacocca and other American auto moguls were bashing the Japanese in Tokyo, I wrote about the chronic transmission problems I and some friends had with Iacocca's Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyagers. Yikes! Want to inflame emotions? Mention the quality of American cars, as Dr. ![]()
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