huskerbob

Cars: What It Means to 'Buy American'

How can you support American manufacturers if you only buy American? Buy the best quality or value, and if they have any brains they will make competitive products. Look at what protectionism did for American car companies: they struggled to catch up through the 70's and 80's. Foreign competition gradually pushed them to make better products.
Do US manufacturers use only US suppliers? Of course not.
Please stop treating the auto manufacturers as if they are run by idiot man children. They are perfectly capable of making competitive products at competitive prices. They don't need protection and jingoism, they need to make more of what people want to buy, and that won't happen if they are coddled.
We have lost a lot of manufacturing because Americans, for good reason, won't work for $1.00/hour, or make cars for $12/hour as they do in Mexico. Let's concentrate on what we do well, let's be competitive! To blindly buy American does not help American companies to be competitive in the long run. If you want to see a car built with no foreign competition, go buy a Lada. Or an Edsel.