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Originally posted by hondaman-iac
i know honda is one of the 3 big american car makers  next to gm and ford. and how many american car makers have plants outside the borders ???
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Actually, numerous car companies have plants all over the world. Ford has plants in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and is planning a new plant in China. As for bashing imports...it's not as old as Ford vs. Chevy, but it's basically the same. Face it...most Americans think bigger is better. Big engines with big power will always win over the minds of people versus small cars with small engines. You've also got to admit that there are a lot more tacky imports/compacts running around with gigantic wings (Geo Storms and mazda 626s with 10" pedestal spoliers) than there are domestics with horribly tacky body kits. As for the value of these cars used...here's how that works. First of all, Honda, Nissans, Toyotas, etc. are hardly more reliable than any given American counterpart. The problem is word of mouth. You pay close to (or over) $30K for your brand new Camaro SS (not now...but in the past few years) and it has a problem after you flog it for 10K miles you're gonna go and run you moronic mouth off to anyone who'll listen about how you paid so much for a car that had a problem (and you neglect to mention how you raped it like an alter boy) with your $30K car. But you buy a Civic for around or under $20K and have a problem with it you just say "hey...it's was $20K, what can you expect?" and keep your mouth shut. People in this country also expect better quality from "made in America" crap than other products. The issue itself is not actual reliability but percieved reliability. If Hondas didn't break down they'd go out of business since that's where the real money is. Henry Ford said that he'd give cars away for free if he could have a monopoly on repairs and replacement parts. Plus most non-exotic companies use the least expensive parts possible while still achieving a certain reliability level. This can be a problem with domestics since they usually make considerably more power than imports. With power comes engine stress which can result in issues if the proper parts are not employed. It all comes down to the fact that something is only worth as much as someone will pay for it. I had a friend who paid $9K for a bone stock '87 Monte Carlo Aerocoupe with 3X,000 miles. NINE F*CKING GRAND. I paid $6K for my car with 36K miles and several mods. There are fewer of my car and it goes faster and I paid $3K less. If some dickless retard wants to pay twice as much for a GSR then let him. I love it when people buy on a name alone and go slower for more money. But like Blind34_1 said, putting most imports and domestics in the same class is ridiculous. They have 2 different purposes for the most part. Honestly, I like a lot of imports...a lot of them have a ton of potential...I just think there's more creativity in domestics than technology. That's the strong point of imports...technology. Even with all of the technology in the world it won't help if your car looks like it was made for driving your kids around. And let's not kid ourselves...if each of us had a million bucks that we didn't need to buy a car, we'd all be driving Ferraris or Lambos or whatever...not Hondas or Fords or whatever. You settle for what you can afford. So ***** all you want about domestic owners bashing imports, but you just wrote an entire post that basically did just that but in reverse. You bashed domestic owners and their cars. Damn I hate hypocrits...especially uninformed ones.