Americanosity of vehicles ?

[F Body]

What Are the Top American-Made Cars

Cars.com's American-Made Index rates vehicles built and bought in the U.S.

Factors include sales, where the car's parts are made and whether the car is assembled in the U.S.
Models that have been discontinued are disqualified, as are those with a domestic-parts content rating below 75 percent.

The results.

1. Ford F-150
2. Toyota Camry, Camry Solara
3. Chevrolet Silverado
4. Chevrolet Cobalt
5. Ford Focus
6. Toyota Sienna
7. Chevrolet Malibu,
8. Pontiac G6
9. Ford Escape
10. Toyota Tundra

Toyota with 3 cars @No.2
Just goes show how world branding/building works !

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[HardRockCamaro]

I was given a Toyta Solara hire car.  It was not nice.
I sometimes wonder if Americans will buy anything as long as it's cheap...

[Shifty]

Quoting: HardRockCamaro

I sometimes wonder if Americans will buy anything as long as it's cheap

just like the rest of the world.

[HardRockCamaro]

Well, yes and no.

Some people in the UK will buy whatever is cheapest, eg Tescos for an unbranded tv cos it's cheap.  No matter how many burst into flames they seem to continue to sell...  


But in America I have noticed that price is king.  In fact, a girl I knew in America once told me that was a fact.  I remember when APS film cameras came out and I had one and pinted out the benefits over 35mm (easy film loading, an index card, panoramic prints etc) and she liked it but when I mentioned the film a d printing cost twice as much as 35mm she lost interest.  "That's going to fail.  Progress and success would be if it was cheaper."


Having said that we do seem to be shifting to the cheap c**p mentality.

[Roadkill]

I personally hate cheap.

Don't get me wrong I rarely (if ever) buy the most expensive (TV's, sound systems etc . . ) but I do like to aim above average at least.

Even when I moved out of home and got my own place when I was 18 and on a piddly £10K a year I insisted on buying all-new decent appliances . . .

10 years later and the TV, video, Washing machine, tumble dryer and cooker are all still going strong . . . well worth the initial hardship of the higher price.

[Incursus]

Quoting: Roadkill

tumble dryer

Didn't I just repair that last week?

[Roadkill]

Yeah, after ten years it required one £18 repair . . . not bad IMO.

[Shifty]

Like Roadkill I would rather spend a bit more and get a better than average item (not the best just better)

More so in recenta years I have noticed with pretty much everything people are willing to sacrifice quality for a cheaper product yet on some things they'll be happy to spend a fortune of utter crap just because it has a name on it.

Look at fashion, some time ago I was dragged (honest) into an FCUK outlet. I had a quick look at a T-Shirt whilst waiting for my friend and noticed it was fraying round the edges, I though that maybe it was faulty so I had a look at another one which was also frayed. I asked my friend about this and was told that it was the fashion. From memory it cost about £70 and for what a fu(ked T-shirt.

These are the sort of people who will spend £6K on a new KIA Pikanto (SP?) and expect to survive an accident in it, and or expect it to last 5 cost free years.

I think peoples priorities are misplaced these days.

Throwaway society

[F Body]

Quoting: Shifty

Throwaway society

Cheap is good

Free is better

[philoldsmobile]

wow.. just found out the Americans dont get the new focus, they still have the old model, just with a slight facelift..



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[HardRockCamaro]

Indeed.  There's no need for the absolute best (but if that's what you want fair enough) but I think it's always worth buying good stuff.
Ignoring fashion itmes, you do tend to get what you pay for.

Good tools last longer, make the job easier (eg more accurate machining means less rounded bolts and whatnot) and you only need to buy them once in your lifetime.

A £300 flatscreen telly from Nankangsang corporation makes a natty picture compared to say a Samsung or Sony is flimsily made from cheap feeling and looking plastic and stuff like the psu won't last as long.

The Citroen Berlingo van we had at work was over a third cheaper than the Transit Connect and after living with it for a weeks I know why.  The exhaust fell off, the gearknob fell off, I dented the bonnet with the palm of my hand and the electrics had a mind of their own.  Just to be clear, I didn't buy it, it was given to us as a free lonaer.  I'd rather pay more for a Transit and not have to fix the ******* thing.


When I spend my money I'd rather pay more for something and have less hassle.  Sadly most people don't think that way.  No-one ever asks themselves "Why is this one so much cheaper?"

[HardRockCamaro]

Quoting: philoldsmobile

wow.. just found out the Americans dont get the new focus, they still have the old model, just with a slight facelift..

That's just on looks.  They don't in fact even get the old Focus.  Their version is a cost engineered POS.  One of the guys on an American Focus forum I used to be on cdame to the UK and insisted on a Focus as a hire car over here.  He was gobsmacked as to the difference in fit, finish and general quality.

[Roadkill]

Quoting: HardRockCamaro

He was gobsmacked as to the difference in fit, finish and general quality.

Fek - and I thought our version was bad !

[philoldsmobile]

no - the focus is a great car...

[F Body]

Quoting: HardRockCamaro

When I spend my money I'd rather pay more for something and have less hassle.

Like our exspensive Bosch fridge/freezer which has now been replaced three times this year



Now that really get's my goat, pay top dollar and get crap