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In reply to the discussion: Why is there a crusade against Apple products but not foreign cars? [View all]flvegan
(64,407 posts)25. The Chevy Sonic? You mean the Daewoo...oh, nevermind.
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Why is there a crusade against Apple products but not foreign cars? [View all]
coldmountain
Sep 2013
OP
You can buy a UAW car just as easy as a Camry BUT DON"T EVER BITCH ABOUT APPLE
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#11
Most prominent models by American auto companies are based on foreign designs...
Gravitycollapse
Sep 2013
#19
Here's a survey that accounts for that globalization and JapanInc cars still don't do so well
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#54
An American car company would have hired them to build cars if JapanInc wasn't here
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#115
The Fusion is selling so well against the Camry it's coming back to Flat Rock Michigan USA
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#128
Many aren't like all the subcompacts listed above and they cost way more jobs than iPhones
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#6
Honda CR-V, Crosstour, Civic, Odyssey, Pilot, Ridgeline, Accord; Acura RDX, ILX, MDX, TL and NSX...
Gravitycollapse
Sep 2013
#9
Over 30% of foreign cars come from outside North America and they cost a lot more than iPhones
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#13
Let's try to address each issue individually instead of mashing them all together.
Gravitycollapse
Sep 2013
#15
With the effects of globalism, where the company headquarters exist becomes largely irrelevant.
Gravitycollapse
Sep 2013
#10
JUST NOT TRUE! Honda's domestic percentage falls 10%+ when management and design factored in
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#24
It sounds like a poorly managed plant run by racist assholes. Not sure how that condemns Honda...
Gravitycollapse
Sep 2013
#42
American car companies are very diverse! Where's Honda's Welburn, Gilles or women executives?
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#52
So essentially you're saying having one black guy makes a company diverse.
Gravitycollapse
Sep 2013
#55
Detroit's executives are diverse. I just picked out 2 well known African American CEO's
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#59
It's called selection bias. About 1% of all Fortune 500 CEOs are black.
Gravitycollapse
Sep 2013
#60
We weren't discussing Fortune 500 companies, we were discussing domestic automakers.
Romulox
Sep 2013
#73
Many reasons but one is that Apple products tend to be more expensive, out of reach of many.
NYC_SKP
Sep 2013
#4
Like a Lexus, Acura, Mercedes, Infiniti, 4runner etc aren't out of the buget ot most Americans?
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#14
I don't need a luxury car. I do need an iPhone and iPad. I have two disabled family members and both
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#40
I could never figure out my RazR, or girlfriend's Samsung, but iPhone is intuitive.
NYC_SKP
Sep 2013
#44
you haven't seen my husband. He is legally blind and he knows his way around that phone. In fact, he
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#50
Your comment epitomizes the very points that you espouse against non-apple users.
defacto7
Sep 2013
#29
many "foreign owned company" cars are made in the USA , so buying a foreign owned/usa made
JI7
Sep 2013
#5
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE $12 BILLION WORTH OF CARS 100% MADE IN JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA?
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#8
Japanese won't buy Korean cars but dumbass Americans shoot our economy in the ass with Japanese cars
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#36
Buying a "transplant" car doesn't help workers as much as buying union made American car
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#26
Shhhh....just...just let it go. Not sure that will have any impact here.
Gravitycollapse
Sep 2013
#28
The design for the new Sonic is based on collaboration with Fiat and Opel.
Gravitycollapse
Sep 2013
#34
All these very small cars are designed abroad but Sonic is the only one built in the USA
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#39
READ IT AND WEEP! Honda FiT is only 1% American Even with Korean design-Sonic 75%!
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#49
I'm for as much American content as is reasonably possible, you're apologist for JapanInc globalism
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#61
Chevy Sonic only subcompact built in the USA with 75% US content vs 1% domestic content for Fit
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#116
Partly because Apple acts like a whiny baby when they no longer hold the biggest market share.
cui bono
Sep 2013
#51
I buy used, when I can afford it, my car was manufactured in California at an UAW shop...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2013
#63
cars.com is a shill for Toyota and Honda. Other surveys show JapanInc doesn't do as well
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#81
AMERICA WAS MUCH BETTER OFF BEFORE WE HAD FOREIGN CARS! How did we survive without Toyota?
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#89
The more accurate survey counting all aspects has the top 26 vehicles made by American makes
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#94
So a group fronted by Chrystler, Ford, and GM say that the Foreign cars built here aren't?
Savannahmann
Sep 2013
#98
What about the Kogod Business school survey that proves what the US carmakers point out?
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#100
Thanks for just saying it! You're a self centered anti-union globalist saying you're a progressive
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#105
LOOK AT YOUR OWN LINK! Ram best fullsize truck!Fusion best hybrid! Chevy&Ford 2nd&3rd best compactsO
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#110
Your link made my point! THERE"S NO REASON BEYOND PREJUDICE TO BUY A JAPANESE CAR ANYMORE!
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#111
A 'crusade' against something because it's foreign is not something good
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2013
#70
People are hypocrites. I once had DU's leading Teachers' Union advocate tell me,
Romulox
Sep 2013
#71
I'm sure I'll never see these DUers lamenting the decline of the middle class.
Barack_America
Sep 2013
#84
First you seem to lump nations into a group 'Asian' as if all Asia is the same. Not keen
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2013
#79
Because M$ has noting to do with it? I have a house full of "PCs" and not one scrap of M$
Egalitarian Thug
Sep 2013
#131
Disgruntled worker drives over people at Mazda plant in Japan, killing 1 and injuring 10 Read more:
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#108
All car dealerships in the USA have American workers even if the car was imported from Mars
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#107
NOW THAT CONSUMER REPORTS SAYS THE 2014 CHEVY IMPALA IS THE BEST SEDAN THEY EVER TESTED
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#118
Foreign workers, in general, are better. That's why outsourcing is so profitable. nt
Romulox
Sep 2013
#126
I don't agree with that. Foreign workers are generally much cheaper, but it is,
Egalitarian Thug
Sep 2013
#127
If they did the same work, that would be a valid point, the truth is however, that they don't.
Egalitarian Thug
Sep 2013
#130
That's not for you to judge. The market has decided, and it wants CHEAPER, not "better".
Romulox
Sep 2013
#133
Some Japanese workers are paid well but contract workers are virtually slaves
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#134