whats good about american made cars?

American built cars are only rated as the best by America, the rest of the world think otherwise, and rightly so.

Inspect any US built car and the quality of materials used is Absolutely appalling matched only by their inability to put it together with anything like a degree of pride.

The only good thing that I can think of that came out of the American motor industry is the Buick V8 engine that was built under licence by Austin- Rover / British Leyland and was used in Rover cars, Land Rovers, TVR and Morgans.

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Rover may have bought the rights for the Buick V8 which was to become the Rover V8 but I'm old enough to remember that originally the engine was built under licence.

The build quality of American cars is appalling. cheap, poor quality materials are used everywhere.

Even non american companies building cars in the USA, like Honda and Toyota, downgrade parts for the American market, compared to european and japanese equivalent models.

The Ford Focus is a good example. A very good car in europe, but shockingly poorly made in America. They have downgraded it for their own market!

America has still never built a car that can corner properly. the rest of the world has known how to do that for years now. even cheap, poverty spec models have competent suspension. its not like the yanks don't have corners, so why can't they build cars that can go around them?

Oh,and the Rover V8 wasn't built under licence, the rights were bought outright buy Rover, as Buick could never build them properly so they went back to cast iron blocks. Rover sorted out the aluminium casting techniques and the engine was a huge success!

They are made for American roads for which they are perfect, but not suited to European roads.

Also they are in fact very cheap over there.

I hired a Buick back in 1981 & it cost the same as a Mini in England.

My opinion is just the pride of the the cars actually being american. Plus american cars are known for a lot of hp. Plus if you live in america and you own an american car they are soo much cheaper to fix than a lot of imported cars

Very little. Nobody seems to want them. Thats why Ford, GM and Chrysler are in trouble. Outside America their build quality and design are seen as poor.

most cars today are about equal in reliability. american cars are built by americans so by buying an american car you are helping to give americans jobs but if you buy asian car...

btw ford sells very many cars in europe and actually make a profit there

The best thing I can say about American made cars are they are made by American workers.

None go for a BMW like me you will be vary happy you did.

their muscle cars look nice...other than that, can't really think of anything