In 1988 i bought my first foreign car ------ after evaluating
american made cars and the price --
What has Detroit done for me.. If i remember right in WW!! we had fighter planes and bombers that could land on an airstrip on two wheels in a rain storm (maybe a typhoon) and not skid off the runway --- Why ---- pulsating brakes--- but when someonr spit on the street i used to slide off the road --- Where was Detroit ???? - I have and still have a car battery that has a job and i think the only job is to "start the car" the rest of the elec comes from the alternator --- so why does this battery weight about 30 lbs and only last maybe 5 years ( which is better then the 3 years - in 1988 ) yet we can send rockets to mars and have them operate rovers for YEARS - maybe 1/2 the size of the dumb battery i carry around for 5 years to start may car ----- why was the magneto not R&D (used in airplanes and race cars)--- big business large donations from lobbyist of battery companies BS---- Only when Ralph Nader went on his crusade ---(2009
Ralph Nader: Fighting for car safety - Orlando Sentinel) to make Detroi give us seat belts -- which never would have been done without Nader.
Please dont tell me in today day and age we can only get 35 mpg from a gas driven car ... BS ... I do not really believe in conspiracies but the story - but check out the Preston Tucker story.
Well in 1988 my Isuzu gave me all of the extras that Detroit wanted to charge me fortune for --- well i do not forget --- God bless all of the retired auto worker who got $50 p/hour to screw a bolt in to a car yet want to pay there house cleaner the minimum wage ---- I have probably hit a sour spot as tv has a lot of retired auto workers sorrry ---- some of what i have said is not 100% accurate but close enough for me Thanks Ralph Nader for the seat belts that has save many - many lives - no thank to Detroit --- just watch GM try and defend itself at the hearing on tv what a JOKE So good luck American auto makers -- we will bail you out again --- no need to bail out foreign auto makers -- most of them do fine without help BMW-etc