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It's Not a Crisis, But a Chaotic Calamity

Some excerpts from ConsumerReports:
"Reliability remains a forte for most Japanese brands. Twenty-three of the 33 models in our “most reliable” list are from Japanese automakers."
"Only three domestic models made the Most reliable list: the Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan, and the two-wheel-drive Ford F-150 with the V6 engine. U.S. makes, however, account for almost half the models—25 of 44—on the Least reliable list. There are 13 from GM, 6 from Chrysler, and 1 from Ford."

So you can get a double-bonus. First buy an American car, then you can pay an American for the extra service it needs.

You can buy a GM, agree with them that global warming is fiction, improve a US company while hurting the environment, or just buy a Prius.

I hate that American companies give me these kinds of choices.

The "American sacrifice" should be for American execs to given lower and/or performance-based salaries to deliver higher-quality products. And tax benefits could be boosted by achieving reliability (and for goodness sake fuel efficiency) improvements.