Do American Cars really suck?

[Hamartia Antidote]

lada cars are vastly superior and cheaper than your junk, we haven models who run on natural gas you dont.

Electric is pretty much the future and this car is showing the way.

 

[boomslang]

Electric is pretty much the future and this car is showing the way.

I don't like them. And besides, where does the electricity come from ? Fossil fuel fired power plants.

 

[takeiteasy]

was hearing about fuel cell powered cars as the future..?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

was hearing about fuel cell powered cars as the future..?

I believe fuel cells just generate electricity so it would just be a different kind of battery pack for the car.

I don't like them. And besides, where does the electricity come from ? Fossil fuel fired power plants.

Assuming you live in an area dominated by fossil fuel power plants I guess the question comes down to which is more efficient...1 million cars or a handful of power plants.

 

[senheiser]

Electric is pretty much the future and this car is showing the way.

and how is electricity made ? By natural gas

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

various videos approving that statement

opinions ?

um cough cough you should see how he (they) changes his mind
Jump to 6:20 for the corvette

 

[my2cents]

various videos approving that statement

opinions ?

Russian cars?? Can anyone name one single Russian brand? I don't think I heard about any...

 

[MilSpec]

American Cars are pretty decent compared with how they were in the 80's and 90's.

The best cars are German followed by Japanese and American , in that order.

what about british and italian ones... ?

 

[Developereo]

what about british and italian ones... ?

Notoriously temperamental.

They look good, but you better put your mechanic's number on the speed dial.

 

[Pakistanisage]

what about british and italian ones... ?

You mean like Aston Martins and Fiats.

Thanks but no thanks....

 

[Nike]

Once i see a Dodge Viper in an International Motor Show, it is clearly a Notoriously American Muscle

 

[Beidou2020]

Russian and Chinese cars are the best in terms of cost, reliability, efficiency and practicality. Both have to market their product better to make consumers aware. Western brands do marketing well so they have a better reputation.

 

[Developereo]

WARNING: may be offensive

Car Name Acronyms

American Cars

AMC:


Awfully Made Cars
American Made Crap
A Mutt Car
BUICK:


Big Ugly Indestructable Car Killer
Big Ugly Import Car Killer
Built Under Inspection of Cooky Korean
Big Ugly Indestructable Compact Killer
CHEVROLET-CHEVY-CHEV:


Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time
Car Has Extensive Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips.
Crappy Hot-running Engines, Very Rusted Out, Lose Every Time
Cranks Hard Every Valve Rattles Oil Leaks Every Time
Constantly Having Every Vehicle Recalled Over Lousy Engineering Techniques
Cheapest Heap Ever enVisioned Yet
Choke, Heave, Eventually Vomit
CAMARO:

Can't America Make A Real One?
Cool American Made Automobile, Runs Outstanding
IROC:

I Race Other Cars
I Run Over Children
Italian Retard Out Cruising
BOW TIE:

Big Over Weight Tired Impotent Engines
CHRYSLER:


Car Has Really Yucky Slow Lazy Engine: Runs
Could Have Remained Your Sickly Lame Elderly Relative's
DODGE:


Dead Or Dying Garbage Emitter
Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere
Dem Old Dudes Go Everywhere
Darn Old Dirty Gas Eater
Dead Or Dying Garage Equipment
Dangerous On Days Gears Engage
Death Overcomes Driver's Generous Ego
Driven Only During Grey Evenings
FORD:


Fools Oughta Ride Donkeys
Found On Road Dead
First On Race Day
First On Recall Day
First On Rust and Deterioration
Fix Or Repair Daily
Fault Of R&D
Fast Only Rolling Downhill
Features O.J. and Ron's DNA
Found On Rubbish Dump
Fools Only Risk Driving
F**ked On Race Day
F**ked Old rebuilt Dodge
Ford Owners: Retarded Drivers
F**king Over-Rated Disaster
F**kin' Out-Right Dangerous
Flip Over Read Directions
For Old Retired Dudes
Found On Roadside Dump
Fraternal Order of Restored DeSoto's
Ford Owner: Real Dumb!!
F**ker Only Runs Downhill
For Only Redneck Drivers
Fork Over Repair Dough
Fragile Overpriced Rusty Deathtraps
backwards --> Driver Returns On Foot
FORD LTD:

Found On Road Dying, Left There Dead (and I own an LTD!)
LTD:

Lazy Tempermental Device
Leave The Differential
Laughable, Trash Dump
Long Term Debt
PINTO:

Put In New Transmission Often
Paid Inspector Nicely To Overlook
GEO:


Good Engineering Overlooked
General Ergonomics Overlooked
GM:


General Maintenance
Garbage Makers
General Mistake
Generous Motors
Grungy Merchandise
GMC:


Garage Man's Companion
Got A Mechanic Coming?
Get More Chicks
Got More Crap
Garbage Man's Cadillac
JEEP:


Junk Eletrical & Emissions Parts
Jumps Excitedly in Every Pothole.
Just Everyone Elses Parts
Junk Everyone Eyes for Parts
Jinxed Engine has Extra Parts
Jumps Everything Ever Parked
JUST Enough Engine Power?
Junk Enginerring- Executed Poorly
Journey Eventually Ends Perpendicularly
MERCURY:


Mileage Eventually Ruins Car -- Usually Ruins You
Makes Everyone Really Crave Underpowered, Recalled Yugo
Makes Envisioning REAL Car Understandable -- Recalled Yet?
Motorists Easily Rate Car (Usually "Real Yo-yo")
SABLE:

Sorry Automobile Breaks Linkage Everytime
MOPAR:


Move Over, Power Approaching Rapidly
Most Often Passed At Races
Mostly Old Parts And Rust
Mostly Old Paint And Rust
Making A Zillion Dollars Annually
Mitsubishi's Over Priced American Replicars
Mutilates Other Products At Races
OLDSMOBILE:


Old Ladies Driving Slowly Make Others Behind Infuriatingly Late Everyday.
Overpriced, Leisurely Driven Sedan Made Of Buick's Irregular Leftover Equipment
Oh Look Dammit, Some Massive Oil Burning Idiot's Leaking Everything
Old Loose Dented Sheet Metal Outdated By Infamies Like Edsel
PLYMOUTH

:
Please Leave Your Money Out Under The Hood
Please Let Your Mother Out Under The Hood!
Police Laugh, Young Men Ogle, all Underestimating This Heap
PONTIAC:


Poor Old Nitwit Thinks It’s A Cadillac
SATURN:


Stickers Are Truly Unnegotiable, Rebates Nonexistent
Asian Cars

ACURA:


Always Catching Up, Rarely Ahead
Awful,Crappy,Unreliable, Rusty Automobile
Automobile Causes Universal Road Accidents
All Cars Usually Require Adjustment
Any Child Understands Real Automobiles
Americans Can Underestimate Routine Accidents
Another Case of a Useless Requested Acronym?
A Car Under Recall Action
DATSUN


Detroit's Angry Towards Sneaky Unscrupulous Nips
Disgraceful Auto That Stalls UNceasingly
HONDA:


Had One Never Did Again
Happy Owners Never Drive Any other
Honest, Officer, Nobody Drank Anything
Helping Out Nips Destroying America
How Odd-No Damn Acceleration
Hold Overs Not Doing Anything
Hell Of a Nice Damn Automobile
Hand Over Nano-Dollars to Asians
HYUNDAI:


Hope You Understand Nothing's Driveable And Inexpensive...
KIA:


Korea's Incompetence: Amazing
MAZDA:


Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along
Making A Zillion Dollars Annually
My! Another Zany Detroit Assassin!
MITSUBISHI:


Management Incessantly Tolerates Socially Unacceptable Behavior, Ignoring Sexual Harassment Incidents
NISSAN:


Now Importing, So Sacking Americans Nastily
Now In Some Sh*tty Automobile Nightmare
Nasty Import Sucks Savings Away to Nagasaki
Never In Synch Screeching Awful Noises
Needs Imminent Salvage So Abandon Now
SUBARU:


Send Undercover Boat And Radioactive Uranium
Screwed Up Beyond All Repair Usually
TOYOTA:


Too Often Yankees Overprice This Automobile
Tons Of Your Old Tin-cans Assembled
Taking Our Yen Out -- Thanks All
Take Only Your Ordure To America
Towed Often, Yearly Overrunning Triple A
European Cars

AUDI:


Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
Always Unsafe Designs Implemented
American Under Developed Ignition
ALFA: (Romeo)


Another Lousy Foreign Automobile
BMW:


Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
Broke My Wallet
Big Money Works
Bought My Wife
Brutal Money Waster
Bavarian Money Waster
Break My Windows
Babbling Mechanical Wench
Bavarian Manure Wagon
Bayerisher Mist Wagen (Bavarian sh*t-car, in german)
Beastly Monstrous Wonder
Beautiful Masterpieces on Wheels
Big Money Waste
Blasphemous Motorized Wreck
Born Moderately Wealthy.
Broken Money Waster
Broken Monstrous Wonder
Bumbling Mechanical Wretch
Bastard Money Wielders
Black Man's Wish
Bowel Movement Wagon
CITROEN:


Crap Interior Terrible Road-holding Owned Entirely by Nutters
FERRARI:


Fast Expressive Red Racing Auto Rahrahrah Italia
FIAT:


Failure of Italian Automotive Technology
Fix It All the Time
Fix It Again, Tony!
F**king Idiot Assembled This!
F**ked Italian Attempt at Transportation.
Failure In Automotive Technology
Feeble Italian Attempt at Transportation
Faster In A Trabant
F**king Italians Ain't Trustworthy
Fails In Attemped Turns
Found It A Terror
JAGUAR:


Jews And Germans Usually Argue Retail
Junk Always Going Under At Repair Shop
LAND ROVER:


Loud, Agonizing, Noisy Drive - Rattles On Virtually Every Road
LUCAS (British wiring co.):


Look Under Car After Starting
MERCEDES:


Most Every Red Cent Eventually Dissipates, Extinguishing Savings
MGB:


My GOD, British
PORSCHE


Pity Only Rich Suckers Can Have 'Em
Puts Out Really Smoky Carbonate Hazardous Emissions
Phased Out Racer-Still Can't Hold Engine
Please Overlook Really Sh*tty Cardboard Horrible Engine
Pulled Over Regularly So Cops Have Enough
Pathetic Or Really Stupid Car for Home and is Expensive
Push Our Real Sh*t Car Home Everyday
RENAULT:


Retarded Engine, No Acceleration, Ugly Lump of Trash
SAAB:


Send Another Automobile Back
Swedish Automobiles Always Breakdown.
Sad Attempt At Beauty
Sorry Auto, Always Broken
Stick At Aircraft Building
Such An Awful Buy
TRIUMPH:


The Risk Involving Useless Machinery Pays Heavily
The Risk In Useless Machinery Pays Heavily
Tried Reparing It Until My Peter Hurt!
This Really Is Unreliable Man, Please Help!
Travels Rather Intensely Under Many Pot Holes
Trembling Ride, Intrusive Undercarriage, Meekly Powered Hotrod.
VOLVO:


Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object
VOLKSWAGEN-VW:


Vehicle Owner's List: Kite String, Wire, Aluminum, Gum, Engine, Nail
Very Worthless
Virtually Worthless
BEETLE:

Battered Everywhere, Expect To Lose Engine
By Everyone's Experience, They Last Eternally!
JETTA:

Junk Engine, The Transmission's Abnormal
RABBIT:

Replace A Beetle? Boy, It Tried
Racy? Ain't! Bouncy, Ball-less Itty-bitty Toy!
THING:

To Holland In Nine Gallons
VANAGON:

Via Another Name: A Gocart On Nicotine
Other Cars

HOLDEN:


Heaps Of Low Down Engine Noises.
Heaps Of Little Dirty Engine Nuts
Horrible Old Limo Drives Extremely Nasty
Heap Of Loud Diff & Engine Noises!
Holes, Oil Leaks, Dents, Engine Noises
Hope Our Luck Doesn't End Now

 

[boomslang]

Russian and Chinese cars are the best in terms of cost, reliability, efficiency and practicality....

Good smoke over there, huh ?

 

[MilSpec]

You mean like Aston Martins and Fiats.

Thanks but no thanks....

Ferrari, Fiat, Maserati,Alfa Romeo, Pagani, Land Rover, Jaguar, Mini,Lamborghini, Pagani

Notoriously temperamental.

They look good, but you better put your mechanic's number on the speed dial.

I have two german and a japenese, would like to get a Jag XJS 85-87 though as a project car.