Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:44:03 -0400 From: "Kenneth S." <nimrodnopsams.com> Subject: Re: Saab's are NOT assembled in the States!!!
JPF wrote: > > You're an asshole, Bob. I am in the automotive business in the USA, > and I take pride in everything I do. I do not work on "American" > cars, only European, primarily German, but I most certainly take pride > in my work. So does every employee, or they are out the door. > Choose your words more wisely. > > On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:02:48 -0400, Bob <uctraingnopsamanet.com> wrote: > > >On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:55:12 GMT, staynopsam.com (Brian) wrote: > > > >>Made with pride in the USA > >>(Some parts may be of foriegn origin) > > > >That's total BS ! > > > >No one here in the automotive business in the States takes > >pride in anything. That's why the cars are so awful. (Also why > >the smart folks over here buy cars made, or at least designed > >and managed, by foreigners) > > > >:-) > > > >Bob I think that comment is absurd. Although I now own a 1996 Saab 900SE (with which I have had many teething problems since I bought it in January), I have owned quite a few American cars, all bought used. It's just preposterous to describe all American cars as "awful." American cars, particularly the big V-8s bought used, are tremendous value for money and last forever. In 1985 I bought a 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass from a neighbor for $200. It was still running very well, burning no oil, when I traded it in years later, with 165,000 miles on the clock. I only sold it because I decided I should have a more respectable car. The car I traded in for my Saab was a 1992 Mercury Grand Marquis. This was another reliable car, very luxurious and comfortable, and during seven years of ownership it gave me very little trouble -- and what repair work needed to be done was relatively inexpensive, in part because any garage can fix a car like that. But then my background is European. So I don't have to subscribe to the belief, held by some Americans, that everything made outside the U.S. is better.
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