After watching many American cars prematurely die for one reason or another just a handful of years after purchase, while the Japanese cars continued to run great for many more years, I would be hard pressed to buy an American car.

It is not the American public that ruined the American auto industry, it is the American auto industry that ruined itself.

(insert above the name of any of miriad American industries past their former glory; steel, building materials, clothing, firearms, electronics, household appliances, etc.)

I don't understand why some people are so quick to complain about Americans who spend their hard earned dollars on the best product they can find, while turning a blind eye to the fact that these shrinking American companies are producing inferior products at a higher cost.

What is wrong with expecting any company (American for foreign ) to earn our business?

--shinbone