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Originally Posted by vee8
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.
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My only problem with your post is that in recent years, vehicle reliability has switched in favor of the domestics... My hope is that the same "smart" people you speak of will continue to do the research and change back to domestics when the time comes.