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Originally Posted by Revo1
You're missing the entire gist of the article. You seem to think that we are insulted for Chevrolet.
This article doesn't target the automakers, but the people that patronize them. It is a blatant attack on our taste and intelligence. It's an uncalled-for and a completely opinionated spin on some unnamed study. The facts aren't displayed- we are forced to take the writer's word for it, which leads me to believe that some facts have been left out from the beginning. The message is clear. Don't buy American. Smart, tasteful, interesting people buy elsewhere. PS, people that choose Chevy are morons.
Nah. If you can't understand why this would be insulting, then there's not much else I can say.
Oh, and MSRP is a pretty damned good price. Let me know who was gonna give you that price on a new Camaro, so I can pay them a visit.
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I don't see it as insulting. I think it's true. magazines report for the past 15 years that foreign cars are better. People with higher education tend to read and study things more. They read that the foreign cars are better and have higher reliability ratings, and thus, they buy more foreign cars. This makes perfect sense to me.
If I were doing research on this topic this would be the exact outcome I would expect to happen. I would have guessed that Ford/chrysler/GM buyers are less educated than Honda/Toyota buyers.
The only issue where I think any of us would be angered is how these "smart" people who buy Japanese cars will read things like this and continue to have snob arrogance regarding their purchase. I work with a lot of highly intelligent people and they probably see my domestic car and wonder why I was dumb enough to buy a less reliable car, but the thing is, they don't use/value a car in the same manner that I do. They want different things than I do. The car that I bought, for the price that I wanted, has everything that I want....no other car company other than a domestic company had what I wanted.
A study says that less educated people eat at mcdonald's more than college educated people. I have no trouble believing that, but I might want to eat at mcdonald's more because I work across from the restaurant. It benefits me more to eat there than to drive somewhere else and lose time off my lunch. Just because, ON AVERAGE, people are less edcucated, it doesn't mean that YOU are.