Originally Posted by lesr
In my opinion Americans {Canadian’s too} went down the slippery slope of second world status when they bought, like lemmings, into the myth that Toyota and Honda had the only cars to buy, due to perceived quality. This left few if any of the profit dollars staying to provide jobs. To hide the deterioration we went into sub prime mortgages to give the illusion of wealth.
The house of cards has now crumbled and yet few see that not supporting local [North American] business has been the creation of our present situation.
I agree with you, the Xfire is the first car that I have purchased, new or used, that was made outside of the US or Canada. I always told friends that had foreign built cars that they were killing jobs in North America and were undermining the NA economy.
These cars come from countries that have very restrictive policies on importing cars from NA. Fair trade I agree with but not the biased policies that we have now that sees NA monies lost to overseas corporations.
Keep the jobs here.