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And there are two really good reasons for that. 1. Volume of cars involved. Far more domestics than European cars here. 2. Frequency. If there are five separate problems from one company (Ford, for example) and only two from another in the same time period (Toyota, for example), then there are going to be more reports on them. Those are my two main points behind my “assessment” and there is data to back that up.

Nah... All the 'flak' that you talk about was and is not NEARLY as intense as the pitchforking the Detroit 3 got. There was even plenty of excuse filled deflections. ESPECIALLY with Toyota's unintended acceleration floor mat issues WITH the Amerian press AND the American Toyota sheeple. With diesel gate... at the same time with Hyundai/KIA... I wanna know HOW in the HELL does VAG STILL have enough followers in the US to continue doing business here. Remember this commercial? SUPERBOWL, brotha. it aired during the freakin' Superbowl... Aside from some fines...where was the FRAUD false advert lawsuits? Where was the American "we got duped" backlash? This is waaaaay before youtube and spotify and twitter misinformation podcasts for the misinformation lies to become a part of American culture. This media format hadnt been invented yet. News outlets in the US were more or less truthful. So...where was all this pitchforking when GM STILL gets grilled for the phoquing Cimarron half a phoquing decade later? There was and STILL is plenty of American public STILL not giving GM or Ford the time of day... Cadillac introduces the ATS and IMMEDIATELY American media makes us remember the aforementioned Cimarron. Brand new EV Hyundai's have problems but not one American news site mentions the horrific Pony... Naw... the INTENSITY of Detroit 3 hatred IN the US has NO parallel. The foreign makes in North America basically get a free pass. Its blatantly obvious. And you know it...

Then maybe you are only looking at certain stories because I’ve seen plenty of flak directed at the Koreans over the last few years and the Germans (see diesel gate). Toyota caught plenty of flak for their crap too lest we forget the floor mat/UA issues 15 years ago. And company “arrogance” aside (what company hasn’t blamed customers first, I’ll wait lol), they addressed those issues in 2002, not even a year after a bulk of the reported issues. https://www.autosafety.org/toyota-broadens-sludge-repair-program/ Just saying, sometimes we see only what we want to see and I’m just going to leave it at that.

Sure... American press should be harsh on American companies fudging up. But... 1. European press was and continues to be harsh on American cars now and then. 2. American press was and STILL is not harsh on EUROPEAN and Asian cars when those are fudged up. 3. European and Asian press was and STILL not harsh on European and Asian cars when those are fudged up. But when European and Asian cars are on par with the shytyness of American cars during the malaise era Id expect the same amount of harshness to go around IN THE PRESS and I CERTAINLY would expect the blowback from the folk to be the same as well. As with the Hyundai and Kia rant... I would have LOVED to hear folk that bought V6 Hondas, any phoquing Honda with a V6 from the 1990s until today, and in the 1990s, it didnt even have to be a V6, and when the transmission failed...I would have LOVED to hear Americans SWEAR off Hondas 4 EV-R. When phoquing Hyundai was selling shyte, like literal shyte in the 1980s into the 1990s and quite honestly...well into the 2010s..and as it seems...today too I wanna know how in the HELL is Hyundai STILL selling cars in North America when the PRESS and the American people HOLD shyttyness to HIGH PHOQUING STANDARDS like they DO with General Motors, Ford and phoquing Chrysler???!!! When...TOYOTA pulled the ULTIMATE arrogant manoeuvre, more than GM and Ford and Chrysler has EVER done with the oil sludge thing of Camrys and certain Lexuses in the 1990s and blamed that problem unto the consumer... the American press lightly covered THAT problem. And there was NO my brother's father's sister's roomate had a sludgy Camry and Toyota REFUSED to fix it so now I will NEVER EVER buy a Toyota EVER again... Let us remind ourselves that the Camry in the 1990s was starting to become America's best selling car and continued to BE for the next 3 decades after that. And Toyotas problems were NOT limited to that...Toyota snowballed with all kinds of defects and recalls to become at that time the car maker with the MOST recalls of all time. Yet NOT one SOB in the press or civilian buying Toyotas EVER whispered a HINT of discontent. We all know that German cars suck after the warranty is gone...since the dawn of time. Prehistory... Where are the phoquing pitchforks like we have pitchforked to death the Detroit Big 3? Catch my drift?

"The press was way too harsh on domestics". (paraphrased but you get the gist) Repeated BS like the above issue is why. I have been liking the designs (and powertrain options) coming from Ford lately but they are having serious teething issues that should not be occurring in this day and age, if you ask me. 100+ years in the business (literally invented the process of mass production of automobiles, for christ sake) and yet they are looking like the Ford of the 1970s, as far as build quality and reliability issues are concerned right now. It's not all bad for them but it has certainly not looked good for them the last few years. Sugarcoat it all you want. Say the press is being too hard on them (duh, it's America and they talk more about American companies here, good and bad press) but don't overlook the actual facts while doing it.

Have to LAUGH at this one, especially the white guy that is trying to bring the attention to Tesla CEO Musk as saying China is Tesla Territory. LOL Cadillac goes after Tesla by setting up test drives at Supercharger station | Electrek Smart Marketing by Cadillac of China.