Reply #178: You're a fool. That is the only thing you clarified.

[Atman]

The very cars you seem to be saying are so much better than "American cars" are the SAME FUCKING CARS as their American counterparts. Volvo's are built almost entirely out of FORD parts and platforms. Saabs are built almost entirely out of GM parts and platforms. The list goes on and on. They're all the same fucking cars.

Which gets back to the original point...let's get off this "people didn't want them because they were crap" crap. It's CRAP. People wanted them, people bought them by the tens of millions. And even the snobs who thought they were buying premium foreign brands were BUYING GM AND FORD CARS.

It's not a question of the brand or the quality anymore. They're all the same, to a large degree. What we're talking about now is bailing out BAD MANAGEMENT.

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