Re: Why aren't foreign cars as good as American cars? - GTcarz

07-24-2003 | 12:29 AM

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Re: Why aren't foreign cars as good as American cars?

"Ralph Patterson" <slimber@mail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Tue 08 Jul 2003 07:31:55p, Blinty Dragon <blinty@blinty.com> wrote in
> news:6afe83edf21dad5dd631aea868c98160@free.teranew s.com:
>
> > My reasons for hating foreign cars:
> >
> > 1. Although some of them are pretty nice, Most of them are ing
> > ugly as hell.
> >
> > 2. The only reason some of them are expensive is because it costs a
> > shitload of money to ship the cars to America. If they were made in
> > America, they would cost just as much or even less than the average
> > American car.
> >
> > 3. Not everybody knows this, but Mercedes are (or used to be, I'm not
> > sure if they still are) used as taxicabs in Germany.
> >
> > 4. I know that most foreign cars last longer than American cars, but
> > while American cars are built to be strong, foreign cars are ing
> > death traps God forbid you are involved in a serious accident. I can't
> > even count how many car accidents I've seen in my lifetime where the
> > American car only has minimal damage and the foreign car is ing
> > smashed to pieces!!!!!!
> >
> > 5. Most foreign sports cars look like dog crap!!!!! Ever see the
> > Toyota Celica, or the Mitsubishi Eclipse? If you think any of those
> > foreign sports cars looks better than a Corvette or a Viper or a
> > Camaro or a Trans Am, then you really have a ing serious
> > problem!!!!!!!
> >
> > 6. There are so many of them that look generic (especially most
> > Toyotas). They obviously put no effort into trying to make these cars
> > look nice.
> >
> > Well, that is my reasoning for hating foreign cars. It is no surprise
> > to me that most of the brainwashed teens flock to these ing
> > foreign cars like the sheep that they are. If that's not bad enough, a
> > lot of them take a lot of time and spend a lot of their drug money to
> > "hook them up" with the latest pointless waste-of-money for the
> > engine and the body so they can make their cars look like something
> > out of The Fast and the Furious. Look, don't get me wrong. Some of my
> > friends have done this to their cars and they actually came out pretty
> > cool, but most people go overboard. Yes, let's all go and sup up our
> > cars so we can all drag race on a ing busy street. Well, I'll say
> > this to all these idiots: When your suped up Mitsubishi is wrapped
> > around a tree and they need the jaws of life to pry you out of the
> > ing car, you're going to wish you hadn't flushed all that money
> > down the toilet, cause when you recouperate from the accident, you're
> > going to find yourself working three jobs to pay for your hospital
> > bills, unless of course your insurance covers stupidity!!!
> >
> > Anyway, to sum it all up, I would take a strong American car over a
> > weak-*** foreign car anyday! That way, I'll feel really safe and
> > secure that there's not as much of a chance of me being trapped in a
> > smashed up car in the middle of Interstate 95 with 18-wheelers
> > whizzing past me every ing second!
>
> American cars are the biggest pieces of crap I've ever had the misfortune
> to drive. Why is it that yanks seem to have problems building a car
> that'll go a reasonable amount of time without something breaking? Are
> American roads so bad that the suspension has to be so soft that you feel
> like you're on a boat? You could run over a human body and not notice.
> After hard braking, the car shakes violently for a few seconds like an
> amusement park ride. Are Americans so weak that the power steering has to
> make the wheel easier to turn than the radio volume control? You could use
> one finger to turn the wheels all the way in either direction, even with
> the car stopped.
>
> American roads DO have corners although from driving one of their cars you
> wouldn't think so. The car feels like it will roll over if you try to
> corner over about 30 km/h (that's 20 mph for you uncivilized yanks that
> remain the only country to cling to an outdated system of measurement that
> has no reason to it).
>
> Speaking of American idiocy, why is it that almost all of your cars have
> automatic transmissions? Is actually driving too much trouble? Do you
> enjoy spending more money for worse performance and fuel economy? Does
> this have something to do with Americans who don't know how to think, and
> learning to shift requires too much thought?
>
> It's a shame that such a bunch of idiots consider themselves superior just
> because they spend all the money that should be used for education and
> health care on the military.

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