A year without "Made in China"

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Originally Posted by merrylander

Our two Chevys were really made in Oshawa Ontario but that's fine by me. What a lot of people seem not to realize is just how long it takes to implement a new car design. AFAIK it is a matter of several years so it took the Bif Three a while to get it done. Remember when a muffler would burn out in 20,000 miles? So when was the last time you replaced a muffler? Our two Chevy Impalas are 13 years old, so far all we have replaced is tires and batteries.

Well, my Audi is 35 years old and has 300000 kilometers know, and needs all 50000 kilometers a new muffler. My Volkswagen is ten years old and has 90000 kilometers now and nothing has been replaced apart from tires, oil, brake fluid (and Bremsbeläge, don't know the English term for that) and batteries.

"AFAIK it is a matter of several years so it took the Bif Three a while to get it done" is absolutely not comprehensive to me. It is an US insider sentence. But no biggie.

It is not the American customers job to design, to build reasonable and rational cars. This is the job of the car engineers. The American customer's job is to buy such American cars - if available.