I have an American car.....
04-18-2005, 07:59 PM
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RE: I have an American car.....
Ok, dont shoot the messenger. 2 things my friend: 1) NAFTA 2) UAW
Cheap overseas labor = increased profits. Thats what it is all about. The mighty dollar. We ship jobs overseas and in return we get quality parts that still cost an arm and a leg.
I found it funny when my new Dodge truck proudly stated "Assembled in America". There wasnt enough USA made parts to qualify for "Made in America"
Its sad. Thanks Bill Clinton.
Cheap overseas labor = increased profits. Thats what it is all about. The mighty dollar. We ship jobs overseas and in return we get quality parts that still cost an arm and a leg.
I found it funny when my new Dodge truck proudly stated "Assembled in America". There wasnt enough USA made parts to qualify for "Made in America"
Its sad. Thanks Bill Clinton.
04-18-2005, 11:41 PM
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RE: I have an American car.....
I'm probably going to get flamed for this but here goes...
I have always loved American cars (except for all that awfull crap they made in the seventies and early to mid eighties)
I think american cars have represented some the best cars for the money in the world however....
Why is the United States, among the most, if not THE most technically advanced, affluent country in the entire world hanging on to this archaic system of measurement? The metric system is much more efficient, logical and easier to learn and understand. If you can count to 10, you already know it.
Yeah I was pissed off when I had to basically duplicate all my wrenches and sockets but then I could work on a wider variety of cars.
I live in Canada. I resisted too, but in many aspects I found metric is easier to deal with.
What IS a real pain is that some American cars have metric on some external parts but not all. For example I have taken transmission pan bolts off that had SAE threads and metric heads. Thank you Chevrolet for that one. Or metric bolts on the valve covers but SAE on the internals.
Make it all one or all the other. Mixing it up is just plain stupid.
As the other guy mentioned, probably because of NAFTA.
I DO understand your frustration though.
I have always loved American cars (except for all that awfull crap they made in the seventies and early to mid eighties)
I think american cars have represented some the best cars for the money in the world however....
Why is the United States, among the most, if not THE most technically advanced, affluent country in the entire world hanging on to this archaic system of measurement? The metric system is much more efficient, logical and easier to learn and understand. If you can count to 10, you already know it.
Yeah I was pissed off when I had to basically duplicate all my wrenches and sockets but then I could work on a wider variety of cars.
I live in Canada. I resisted too, but in many aspects I found metric is easier to deal with.
What IS a real pain is that some American cars have metric on some external parts but not all. For example I have taken transmission pan bolts off that had SAE threads and metric heads. Thank you Chevrolet for that one. Or metric bolts on the valve covers but SAE on the internals.
Make it all one or all the other. Mixing it up is just plain stupid.
As the other guy mentioned, probably because of NAFTA.
I DO understand your frustration though.
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