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Mar 2008
The old Foreign vs. Domestic debate
Posted by Scott Spielman
at 12:29 PM | Comments (2)
This is a personal post, but it’s something I’ve been curious about for a while now.
I’m in the market for a used car, something good on gas, and I wonder what the popular opinion is about picking up an old domestic product vs. an old foreign model.
I’m not looking for anything flashy—those days are sadly behind me—and I’ve had two cars in the past that call to me now.
The first car I ever financed was a Honda Civic CRX. I drove that thing until I couldn’t drive it anymore—about 130,000 miles worth.
The second was a 1994 Ford Escort hatchabck, a car that single-handedly restored my faith in the American auto (a faith that was later shaken with an early model Ford Focus that had more electrical gremlins than a beaten down space cruiser in a second-rate sci-fi movie). My ‘mileage experiments’ with that Escort are legendary among my circle of friends—and I only had to walk once. I racked up more than 120,000 miles on that car, too, including a cross-country trip. It’s probably still on the road.
Given that I live in the heart of UAW land, the City of Wayne that is basically sustained by Ford Motor Company, and I do some work at the plants (when I’m allowed to), I’ve all but decided which way to go.
I’m curious, though, with the escalating cost of gas and the increasingly global market place (the Focus, for example, has the lowest Domestic Product Component ratio of any ‘American’ made car), what people think about the whole issue…
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