Who else is fed up with car mag's?

[97snakedriver]

Originally posted by inferno:
. American car makers did it to themselves by selling $hitty cars. Now I am not calling all of the cars $hitty, but there are a good number of crappy vehicles produced by the Big Three.

I don't think too many would have issues with this. If they do I would sugest taking a ride in 3 cylinder Geo Metro.

The thing that makes this even more sad is the fact that they have all been buying or purchasing controlling interest in a lot of different foreign car manufacturers that make superior products.

Why is this sad? Jaguar was on the ropes; Ford bought them; Now they make some seriosly smooth cars (using engines co-designed by Ford and Jaguar engineers), while turning a profit. Same with Ashton Martin. Mazda is still up in the air, but the RX-7 follow up looks pretty freakin cool. Engineers get to make cool cars. We get to look at cool cars that overwise wouldn't have been made, and the luckier of us get to drive cool cars that wouldn't have been made. Sounds like a pretty deal all around to me.

Maybe Ford should ditch the Taurus for the Mondeo and give the Focus a Cosworth engine. Maybe Dodge should import the Lancer as a Colt again, but this time put the turbo 4wd car that the rest of the world got or at least give the public a turbo Neon based on the old Eclipse engine(rumor has it they might, but that was also said when the Neon first came out).

Fine with me, but I'm sure some marketing
guys numbers probably say different.