Would you buy a car from this manufacturer?

[Saddle Bronc 124]

1. yes, if the manufacturer's product is good quality
2. no

[wayno 9]

1; yes, If I like the vehicle and needed one, I'd buy it

2: yes, because I don't trust the media. IMO, these companies aren't going to go under. I could see them getting bought and restructured, but the name and warrantees would remain. Even though the main stream media may hate US cars to all degrees and would love to see them fail, the bottom line is there are 3 well established companies with good names. Why change that?

Got a Ram 1500 4X4 last year. If I didn't just get it a year ago I'd get one now. Good deals to be had. Not worried about my warrantee one bit.

[NickD 203]

Would you buy a car from a manufacturer going through bankruptcy if the media consensus was that the manufacturer would emerge from the bankruptcy as a viable business?

Would you buy a car from a manufacturer going through bankruptcy if the media consensus was that the manufacturer would not emerge from the bankruptcy as a viable business?

If the price was right, and who knows, may be a good collectors item, as long as I am sure I can get my moneys' worth out of it.

Good luck with that warranty...

Whether the company stays or emerges from bankruptcy is a crystal ball call, my crystal ball has a crack in it, and the warranty is a strong consideration in the price I would pay. When I buy a vehicle, always get a shop manual with it, didn't need one before, but save hours in tracing out electronic problems, rest is simple. Even dealers have problems with electronic systems, they are not electronic engineers, not even technicians. And not only a dealer can repair a vehicle, a strong aftermarket business exists in this company that wouldn't exist if the manufacturers did everything right. One main reason I prefer domestic made vehicles, I can deal with my fellow Americans, but not so successful in dealing with the Germans, Koreans, Japanese, or now the Chinese. You would be shocked to learn the markups on vehicle parts, I will give you a hint, it's around 10,000% meaning a part that cost around a buck to make, you pay 100 bucks.

The average American buyer and car salesman only know about the colors of a vehicle, not much of anything else, certainly nothing about what's under the hood or the drivetrain, I do my homework first. Consumers Reports really sucks for any decent information and they lie like crazy what a dealer actually pays for a vehicle. If what they said was true, you would see a checkout clerk selling a vehicle every minute just so the dealer could meet his overhead.

Did you know Toyota wants a minimum of two million bucks just to get a dealership? Screw them. Japs are trying to own this country and they are very successful at it. And they are a very racist people, if you happen to be white.

[Niels Bohr 72]

I don't have to worry since I have Toyota, and Honda. Which households don't have them nowadays?

[Donna A 4]

one way of getting a company out of bankruptsy is buying their product isnt it.

yes i would buy their product.

bankruptsy doesnt always mean closing up shop but redoing it also.

[NickD 203]

one way of getting a company out of bankruptsy is buying their product isnt it.

yes i would buy their product.

bankruptsy doesnt always mean closing up shop but redoing it also.

My money is for an employee owned corporation, where they have a say in how much the board and CEO makes, and even the product, how it's made, how to be more efficient in their jobs, and to share in the wealth of their efforts.

Disheartening to hear, if you use more than one sheet of toilet paper to wipe your butt, you are stealing from the stockholder.

Toyota and Honda runs their factories like a strict military organization, and hourly rates are very close to unionized shops, advancement is nil unless you are a Jap, know what you are talking about before you open your mouth.

[NickD 203]

And the profits are leaving this country, so the rest of us are paying much higher taxes. Ask any WW II vet who really won that war, they will all tell you, it was Japan, and now we are seeing stuff from Viet Nam on our shelves. Our rich are getting richer, and our poor are getting poorer.

I even worked for Honda a couple of years, those idiots didn't know how to design a good car, had to use American engineers, if they would let us do it, but just long enough to get our brains picked. Screw Honda, they already screwed us. And screw Sony as well.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

My money is for an employee owned corporation, where they have a say in how much the board and CEO makes, and even the product, how it's made, how to be more efficient in their jobs, and to share in the wealth of their efforts.

I agree. That would be one provision that I would want to see as part of any rescue plan for the Big 3 auto makers. At least make the majority of the stock employee owned. Then have the employees elect the Board of Trustees who then would choose a new CEO. In any case, the leadership of the Big 3 has to go.

[Nessa 23]

no

[Nagishkaw 510]

Perhaps.

No.

[AlHayatZween 2]

yes to both if the price was cheap and the car was not a gas guzzler.

my husband is African. he can fix cars with rubber bands and paperclips.

[Lansbury 19]

I don't have to worry since I have Toyota, and Honda. Which households don't have them nowadays?

Ours. I had a Honda once it was the biggest piece of junk I had the misfortune to own in 40 years of car buying.

To answer the original question. If it was a vehicle I wanted and the deal was worthwhile I'd buy without hesitation if the manufacturer was viable or not.

[Niels Bohr 72]

What happened to that Honda? Not persuading you to like it. What went wrong?

[Lansbury 19]

What happened to that Honda? Not persuading you to like it. What went wrong?

All sorts of electrical problems with the ignition from about 13K. Took them about 4 months on and off to fix it.

Blew a head gasket at 36K

Lost 4th gear at about 45K

Uneven wear on the front brakes, left side wore down much quicker than the right. The dealer kept saying there was no reason why.

Door window came off the runner and wouldn't close.

Rear view mirror came off.

[CaNdiD wiTcH 0]

What happened to that Honda? Not persuading you to like it. What went wrong?

All sorts of electrical problems with the ignition from about 13K. Took them about 4 months on and off to fix it.

Blew a head gasket at 36K

Lost 4th gear at about 45K

Uneven wear on the front brakes, left side wore down much quicker than the right. The dealer kept saying there was no reason why.

Door window came off the runner and wouldn't close.

Rear view mirror came off.

I am happy with my Honda. Hmmmm.. just need to take it for maintenance service every 3 months (almost) plus I cannot take it to other car shop even for change oil as it would void my warranty.