American Cars
I was looking at cars recently, not with any real intent to buy, but just to see what interested me. I thought to myself, “Hey, with those American car companies failing, maybe I’d see what they had. Maybe I’d try to support them, even if only in while perusing.”
The problem, as I quickly discovered, was that American cars aren’t appealing–they just don’t look good, imo. I have no idea how their build quality or reliability compares, and I probably never will. If there’s not a single car that can make me say, “I’d like to be driving around in that,” there’s not a single car I’ll look into in detail.
I even figured maybe they’d have a some competitive hybrids or something, since that seems to be the way the world is going. Well, you know what? From what I saw, they don’t. Unless I want to start paying $30k or something, but why would I bother with that? I can get a brand new Honda Insight for under $20k.
Like I said, maybe American cars are all built better and are more reliable, but frankly I doubt it. That’s exactly one of the reasons Honda and Toyota became so popular. Even if that is true, though, they’ve gotta have some street appeal too. Hopefully Fiat can change that for us…
Juvers said:
Jun 27, 09 at 6:22 pmI looked at and drove most American models before buying the Corolla. Most of them had less gas mileage, few features, and looked ancient compared to the Honda & Toyota models. All, for a more expensive cost.
jared said:
Jun 28, 09 at 1:11 amYeah, but I bet they all had about 12839126391826 trucks and SUVs!
corinne said:
Jul 01, 09 at 10:26 amI loved the little Fiat 500s driving around in Italy — not so much the old ones that looked like clown cars..