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To: Road Walker who wrote (441569)	12/20/2008 7:24:00 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574446

I really don't understand why Detroit hasn't come out with a smallish, very high mileage hybrid. If they offered a hybrid that got better mileage than a Prius I think it would be a huge success. Instead they offer a hybrid Escape.... duh. Toyota cannot make money on the Prius, the most successful hybrid to date. How is Ford, who has far higher labor costs, going to make money on a knockoff? Stupid idea. They have to sell cars they can make money on. The choices are quite limited since they pay far more labor cost per vehicle than their competition. There are few, if any, cars in their lineups that will permit them to compete effectively with the Japanese OEMS on a head-to-head basis. They don't need new vehicles; that isn't the problem. The problem is they cannot make money on the ones they are already selling because the labor costs are too high. I don't know why, when people who are smarter than you and without liberal dogma continue to explain this to you, you don't just listen. That would avoid the need to repeat, over and over, the same things.

To: Road Walker who wrote (441569)	12/22/2008 9:44:47 PM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574446

I got turned off by the U.S. Auto makers in the 1970's. My girlfriend had a Vega and it started throwing oil after 70k miles. As if they didn't know that aluminum block was going to do exactly that. I had a friend that had a 6 cylinder pinto that blew a head gasket after about 80k miles. A mechanic told us at the time that was pretty standard for that model. I still remember that mechanic telling us we might be better off scrapping the car because it'd probably explode on us if we ever got hit in the rear...LOL I also bought a beautiful used Camaro. At least it WAS beautiful until all the bondo started falling out of the wheel wells. They made a LOT of junk in the 1970's and people my age remember and aren't in ANY rush to give them our business anymore. Toyota got ahead by making "dependable" cars.