If you look back at car of the year winners from years past you would be amazed at some of the carp that has won.... I don't disagree with the 500's nomination. Just to stir the pot here is the list. Audi A7 Buick Verano Chevrolet Sonic Chrysler 300/SRT-8 Fiat 500 Ford Focus Hyundai Accent Hyundai Elantra Hyundai Veloster Kia Rio/Rio 5 Scion iQ Subaru Impreza Toyota Camry Toyota Prius V VW Beetle VW Passat More than a couple of these make me think WTF???? :crazy:
Agree there is definately more than one car on that list that shouldn't be there, that said; do two, or in this case, several wrongs make a right? The 500 is a neat little car but what is so significant about it to deserve such a distinction? But given the same group, nominated the Countryman as truck of the year....what the heck do I know?
Ford, GM, Toyota all have factories in Canada, but I don't know that there has ever been a strictly Canadian car company (aside from ZENN).
Yeah - that is what I meant. I believe there were (are?) Canadian cars... Even tho one can say the "corporation" is headquartered in a particular country, these days, where most every car has parts made and assembled all over the world, it's hard to say that a car is truly "American" or "British", etc.
just saw it yesterday. The worst car commercial I have ever seen. EVER. It may appeal to a small percentage, but most prospective buyers will run away screaming. Not good business sense.
It wouldn't matter.... I just hate the way it looks. And I HAVE to like the way a car looks. I don't care if it goes 500mph.
Some years ago, a study to find the car with the highest British content found it was a Volvo, built in Sweden! Plenty of cars were built in Britain, but they contained more parts from other countries. I think it's important to look at where a car is built and really ignore the badge on the front - a Honda built in America is much more American than a Chevrolet built in South Korea.
Man Dawoo Chevrolet's... :crazy: For all of the buy Merican folks over here. It can not be done, most everything in this country is made somewhere else. Even the stuff here is made with parts made someplace else. The world is a smaller place these days.
"Manufactured in the USA" Novel concept.....might work......didn't we actually manufacture the war machine that won World War II? Everything from tanks, jeeps, trucks, cars, airplanes of all sizes and shapes, ships all sizes and shapes, submarines, guns, artillery, ammunition, bombs, uniforms, helmets, boots, medicine, spam, etc., etc., etc....? All built and manufactured right here in the good old USA?
Fiat debuts the "real" JLo commercial. When Fiat-Chrysler launched a music-video-style spot featuring Jennifer Lopez for the Fiat 500, the criticism came fast and furious. The automaker, however, said the spot wasn't really a spot, but was rather a trailer for JLo's music video that the company sponsored. A real spot was forthcoming. And here it is. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPCAEkcyqg]FIAT 500c -- "My World" by J. Lo - YouTube[/ame]