Farewell to GM, from a factory rat’s disloyal daughter

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81. I buy American products when I can find them and I'll even pay a premium for them.

I'm not willing to accept an inferior product because it's made here though.

Between cars I've owned, been provided with or shared with my wife, I can speak to 12 cars. 8 were American; 4 were / are Japanese and we put an average of about 80,000 miles on each car. The Japanese cars were super reliable and never needed anything but routine maintenance. Unfortunately, I can't say that about the American cars. The list of non-routine items on the American cars includes things like air-conditioning (at least 5 major repairs on 3 cars), alternators (twice on the same car), power steering pump, windshield wiper motor, front end work (on several cars), replacement carb, radiator replacement (on 3 cars), a transmission failure and a blown head gasket.

I'm sorry if you don't like it, but that's been my experience.