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Originally Posted by The Judge
For someone from Michigan you should know how extremely damaging to the US economy buying foreign cars is. But that is not what I was talking about.
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I've owned quite a few mustangs and am currently looking for a fox and plan on shooting for 10 second 1/4 times BUT for daily drivers they don't offer anything even close to what I'm looking for.
My first new car was a focus and I've bought a couple of brand new dodges (lemon lawed an 06 Charger R/T) and had a QC hemi Ram 1500 that I lost in a divorce.
Detroit simply isn't making anything respectable outside of trucks and sports cars. Sure GM has a few decent family cars getting 30MPG but thats just not enough. They don't offer anything that'll get even close to 40MPG and are completely clueless on hybrids (GM Yukon anybody?) The Escape/Mariner hybrids are decent but just not interested in them yet, I'll wait a while for them to prove their shit over time and maybe get a second generation BUT even then I'm still leaning more towards a non hybrid Highlander with an extra row of seats if I can get the right price on it.
Sitting here:
07 civic hybrid
01 Olds alero
'75 F100 (460)
'68 Mustang (289)
There just isn't enough reason to buy american cars right now for daily driver/family duties. When kid #3 comes along I'll likely buy a midsized SUV used with 30-50k miles on it and only drive it when we absolutely have to. With gas prices climbing prices on larger vehicles are dropping like a rock but I sure as hell won't be buying a brand new american vehicle until they can top 50MPG.