Toyota will have to wait at least one more year

Being wrong, he's changed the topic . . .



.... so now he's typing about fleet vehicles. Well if troll boy wants to talk fleet vehicles ... Consider how I'm making it my personal goal to encourage Disney (my employer) to stop buying GM guzzler garbage SUV's as fleet vehicles ... as GM is claiming that because they have E85 stickers on the back, that they're higher mileage. Can I describe how happy it made me, when I dropped off corective documentation to our Companies, "Powers that be" ?? I've loaded them with literature on the virtues of the Lexus & Toyota hybrid SUV's. Doing my little part, to end the foolishness, thankyouverymuch.

 

You mean besides their Chinese GM products? They already do buy other foreign made vehicles, with more to come, giving us hope that they do in fact understand macroeconomics.

 

What defines a "foreign" vehicle?

Our 2001 Toyota Avalon was assembled in Kentucky using parts from the US, Canada and Japan.

Our 1997 Ford Explorer was assembled in Missouri using parts from the US, Canada and Mexico.

The only "foreign" vehicle I own is the Prius which was assembled in Japan but has Goodyear tires (manufactured in Japan by a US company)

Are my tires "foreign"?

 

Ford doesn't make a vehicle which can get 45+mpg on my daily commute. Neither does GM. I don't want to contribute to the dollars leaving the US to buy foreign oil. Foreign oil is oil that we import from other countries. Our money used to buy the foreign oil leaves the US economy.

I'm sure others have pointed this out but you are wasting your time preaching to the Prius owners. GM does not offer a car to compete with the Prius. You should go berate Porsche owners who should have bought a Corvette or Nissan Titan owners who should have bought a Silverado. At least you would have a slim chance because GM actually has a product to compete with those vehicles.

Wouldn't it hurt the US economy if GM decided to close auto parts factories in Michigan and transfer that production to Mexico? If they eliminate all the manufacturing jobs in the US, who is going to be able to buy their cars? Will it be the people in Mexico who are now building the parts?

I'm not happy about it. I didn't put a smiley face in my post. But it is the reality.

Back to the original topic: Does GM get to count those cars built in China to keep their #1 status? Does it really matter? I don't think so.

 

I reckon that 1 Prius purchased in the US sends about $17k to Japan, and avoids sending about $9k to the countries from which the US imports oil (over its service life, and compared to typical sedan mpg). Somebody else might get different results. A VW diesel sedan import might work out about the same.

There may not be *any* primarily made-in-America cars that will only send $8k petrodollars overseas during their probable service lives. Unless they have very short service lives

Vehicle lifetime net trade deficit. This is not the only way to evaluate a new car purchase decision, of course, but it's something to think about.

 

He doesn't care about petro dollers (caused in great part because of giant land boats) going to terrorist countries ... only that no ones buying land boats that get poor mpg.

 

Which is why you should be over on the Tundra board trying to convince them to buy a Tahoe or a Silverado instead. Good luck with that.

Come back to the Prius board when GM has a vehicle that exceeds the mpg and emission performance of the Prius.

 

I got an idea, Screw nafta and screw trading all together. People whine and complain the us economy is failing. People should buy more items MADE IN USA and sales gone to the USA unlike toyota and other foreign vehicles sold in the US of which we never se a dime of the sales.

 

Yeah!, I'm going right out to Wal-Mart and get me some American-made stuff I can't live without.