Lots of mistakes made, including overseas manufacturing and horrible city management. But the US car manufacturers also chose a flawed business model based on advertising vs engineering. Sad. US could have had the best engineered vehicles in the world, but they let Germany and Japan do it.
Sauce: we had a Jeep Cherokee and wanted to buy a new one, was still US made; but the reliability was awful. The steering was loosey goosey. Had to buy a much cheaper used BMW SUV instead. Tight responsive steering and handling, excellent reliability, drove it to about 300K miles then got another used one.
Lots of mistakes made, including overseas manufacturing and horrible city management. But the US car manufacturers also chose a flawed business model based on advertising vs engineering. Sad. US could have had the best engineered vehicles in the world, but they let Germany and Japan do it.
Sauce: we had a Jeep Cherokee and wanted to buy a new one, was still US made; but the reliability was awful. The steering was loosey goosey. Had to buy a much cheaper used BMW SUV instead. Tight responsive steering and handling, excellent reliability, drove it to about 300K miles then got another used one.