"3 years ago I got to see the manufacturing cost of a Cadillac DeVille. Fully loaded, with most options, it cost $12,000 to GM to build. The cost of the car from the dealer was $42K+. MSRP was around $48K."
BS- the drivetrain was more than $6K, the seats, fully trimmed and ready to install from Lear was amost $4K, the electronics was another $4K. I don't have the costs on frame and sheetmetal. You've been getting facts from the internet again, you should know better.
If we encourage manufacturing HERE our American Companies will come back HERE. But Washington doesn't think about that."
Encouraging manufacturing has nothing to do with Washington.
you never saw the cost of manufacturing a cadillac. If you did you didn't understand what you were looking at!Why do you people come up with such nonsense. when you know it iwsn't true. This is what brought on the myth that anything frfom another country is better than anything the usa has to offer . There is nothing that is made in the usa that is inferior to any foreign product. I am american try me!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE CAN ALL THANK OUR LUCKY STARS THAT IN THE WORLD WARS WE FOUGHT (2) OUR COUNTRY STOOD TOGETHER OF ONE MIND AND ONE PURPOSE "TO PRESERVE OUR COUNTRY" AND OUR WAY OF LIFE. THE MOST PROSPEROUS,STRONGEST, COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT NO ONE COULD STAND AGAINST NO ONE COULD DESTROY IS BEING DESTROYED FROM WITHIN. THIS WAS FORETOLD IN THE EARLY 1960S BY "NIKITA KRUSCHEV".YOU SPEAK OF PROTECTIONISM LIKE IT WAS A DIRTY WORD, IF WE DONT PROTECT OUR OWN THEN WE DESERVE TO LOSE OUR OWN. AND WE WILL!
budweiser ain't american no mo.just thought i'd let ya know!
Gm ford and chrysler are not foreign owned> you need to find the facts before speaking because someone is listening!
your end of story is ignorant of the facts!
Really!?
I will take any of the big three and match them against any piece of foreign metal you can come up with and best you in all categories. Gm has the most reliable and fuel efficient car you can buy in the usa bar none.
Really, huh I can think of several European cars of the top of my head that can not be touched by any of the products from the big 3's line up. Let alone GM having anything that is the MOST Reliable and Fuel Efficeint At the same time...
Where do you work?, china, japan,thailand, vietnam, brazil, mexico,canada,this is where our jobs have gone because you believe foreign products are better.
Why yes as a matter of fact you have paid me to work in several of the counties that you mentioned, and many, many more that you have not mentioned.
This countries jobs leaving has a lot more to do with Taxes, Bribes, and Profits than where what we buy is made. And yes a LOT of foriegn made products are better than Some American made products.
When will it be your turn? Back all america and hope our dependence on foreign products will not destroy our industrial base.
...given that 100% American doesn't exist,
foreign cars aren't better than ford, chrysler, gm,. Gm has the most fuel efficent car made. better than all foreign or domestic. How many foreign cars do you see from the fifties or earlier still running????? a staff sgt. once told a recruit to bend over and put his head between his legs. so the recruit did as he was told. At this point the staff sgt. told the recruit, now pull your head out of your a-- and use it for something more more than a butt plug. I would put any of the big three autos up against any foreign auto your pea brains can come up with and will best any of them. I am american I am the best , I do the best , I build the best, I make the best, I live the best , I have the best, I fought the best, and no one beats the best! and thats what we """"""ARE""" THE BEST.