RIP Chrysler!!!

The cheap Japanese automobiles have defeated you - finally.

Please Rest in Pieces.

RIP Chrysler!!!

 

I was happy with Chrysler vehicles; up to 2004. Certainly not after,
because of their abandoning good FWD cars. THX Daimler!

You should learn your facts or use your brain before you spout off your
BIG mouth.
The Chrysler vehicles we used to buy, mid sized cars, were lower priced
than the equivalent Toyota, Honda, Nissan. The Chrysler quality was
excellent.

Those cheap "Japanese" vehicles don't suit us, in fact most are too
small for us to get behind the steering wheel.
The cheap Japanese cars that fitted us were back in the 70s,
when I bought 3 Datsun 510s.

 

I like it... does that mean "we" got bigger, equatorially speaking?

DAS

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Nope, not that much larger.
Once the Japanese got a good foothold in our NA marker, they followed
the well known path to higher profits, make the passenger space smaller
in the lower cost cars.
We suffer from head and leg room in many low cost cars, as well as in
high cost sports cars.

 

Didn't there used to be car import quotas in the US? This resulted in only
bigger, higher margin cars being exported to the US. As the quotas fell
away more smaller cars came into the US.

The rest of the world manages very well with 'small' cars. In many city
streets American 'full size' cars are just physically too big to be of any
use.

DAS

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Japanese cars have steadily gotten larger for the most part over the
years. You don't see Honda AN600 sedans or coupes anymore. The Nissan
Sentra and Altima are quite a bit larger than the 90's versions.
American cars have shrunk lately such as the Chevy Aveo.

 

Much of that has to do with high taxes on gas in those countries.
England has been upwards of $9/gallon. Do that here in the USA and
demand for tiny cars will skyrocket.

 

The Honda Accord is officially a full-size car, it has so much
interior room. So your statement is not only false, it shows an
incredible lack of basic research.

So get a motorcycle.

 

Do they come with airbags?

 

but some things override cost of gas

need a map for context

Roanoke is right of middle and on the bottom.
below it should be Martinsville Patrick County where there is a nascar track
and Farmsville
the entire area is staunchly born again or variation thereof, very
conservative and very confederate, except there's Franklin County
right above them and below Roanoke which is Moonshine Capital of the
world -- where Kevin Costner killed all those guys

Above that should be primarily vacation spots - blue ridge and
shenandoah, farms, little population

little cars do well in none of this terrain

and try and change the culture behind large cars and large motors

mk5000

"I tumbled down to the floor by the piano, with my arms thrown out
instinctively to catch my fall, into the jagged shards of glass. I felt the
searing, stinging pain that ran from my wrist to the crease inside my elbow.
Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of
my arm-into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires."-new
moon, stephenie meyer

 

In some cases but I repeat, put $9/gallon gas in the USA and you will
quickly see the vast majority driving small econo boxes. SUV and truck
sales took a sharp nosedive in summer of 2008 with $5 diesel and $4 gas.
Econo cars skyrocketed in sales.

 

By whose standards? Compared to what? The Accord is certainly not a
full sized car compared to the traditional decades old use of the term.

 

Operatove word there is "old". Times have really changed.

 

The picture you've painted of Roanoke (skirted by I81) and surrounding
area is *very* misleading. You've got VA Tech there. And it's
Farmville, not Farmsville, home of a university and one college. We
aren't the Dukes of Hazard and don't have moonshine stills and aren't
waving confederate flags all over the place. And the thing that Kevin
Costner did - is it safe to assume that you are referring to a movie - I
mean, I don't know which movie you are talking about there - that's just
my ignorance - but I assume you aren't saying that he really killed a
bunch of people somewhere in the area, but regardless, what would that,
movie or real, have to do with what kinds of cars people drive?

BTW - the license plate on one of my cars is "EIEIO-VL" - can you figure
it out.

 

Old MacDonald...?...

Happy New Year.
DAS

 

Ha ha! You got it! (some people still won't get it)

It's based on an old joke: "When I was a kid, we used to sing 'Old
MacDonald' all the time. I was 23 years old before I realized that
"farm" was not spelled 'e-i-e-i-o'".

Very few people get the plate without some hint - in fact, only one
person in the 4 years I've had it - a 16 year old kid.

 

What do you mean "we"? I'm from Roanoke. I think I can speak on this
subject. Which street do you live on there?

And it's Franklin County that has the stills not Roanoke.

but anyway what did all that information have to do with the fact that most
Roanokers still like big trucks, big cars and aren't ready to give them up?

mk5000

"but you don't know what it's got til it's gone
and you don't know what it's like to feel so low and every time you smile or
laugh you glow
you don't even know know know"--a little bit longer, jonas brothers

 

So only one person in all of the wherever it is you live has familiarity
with American style nursery rhymes. Interesting.
They teach us this song on the Kolhosp when we are very little to
demonstrate precisely how capitalist your American farming system is.

I named my first daughter Tractor in commemoration of the glorious workers'
revolution.

Her daughter will be named Chrysler!

mk5000

"one of y'all you see I'm so paid
an oh big money Weezy"--Akon

 

Car Classifications certainly have changed. I rent a lot of cars from
Thrifty and Avis. It may just be a pricing thing with Avis but they
consider a Toyota Corolla and PT Cruiser now a mid-size car, a Malibu and
Sebring a full size and a Charger/Impala as premium size. Things certainly
have changed.

 

No - that's not what I said. I said that only one person got the
license plate - there's a difference. If you need me to explain that
difference, then there's no use in even trying - you still would not get
it. Maybe one of your local still operator friends can explain it to you
so you can understand.

Exactly which part of the song would that be. All I know from the song
is that he had some pigs and chickens and cows, and they went "oink
oink", "chick chick", and "moo moo". Something capitalistic about that?
Was there some other version of the song they were using for
propaganda? Or is "EIEIO" some acronym with a secret evil capitalist
meaning?

Do you call her Tractor, or the Russian word for tractor? If so, I hope
it has a nicer, more feminine ring to it in Russian. Hmmm - apparently
not - it appears the Russian word for tractor is in fact трактор (same
as in English).

Weird.