My latest car purchase is a Ford product - a Volvo C30.
Before that, another Ford product - a Land Rover Freelander.

It's amazing that the British and European "Ford" products are doing well, and the domestic is having such a hard time. Perhaps there's a lesson there.

I'm somewhat of a "petrol-head" in that I love cars - and motorcycles - and never miss a car show. I enjoy seeing all the new models and test-driving every one I can. As with most consumers, I like getting my money's worth.

Eventually, the domestic manufacturing is either going to get better, or go the way of the Yugo, the Renault Dauphine, and most Fiats.

As with any competitive product, you can either give the consumer what they want, or you can go the way of the Hudson and the Nash Metropolitan. Manufacturing products that are not marketable is utterly stupid and arrogant, and yet we encourage the Big-3 to do just that.

If Hewlett-Packard kept making 386 and 486 computers, would we bail them out as well?