Interestingly enough the same exact thing was said of the Japanese, and they cleaned our clocks on quality because we just kept putting our heads in the sand and saying "those rice burners are junk"......
While we were busy slamming the Japanese they were busy building more reliable electronics and cars and motorcycles & medical equipment products than we'd ever dreamed of building... Look where companies like Honda and Toyota are today after nearly everyone in the 70's and 80's snubbed their nose at them just as many are doing today with the Chinese.
Toyota is now the #1 auto maker in the world and GM is #6... Wow!!! The largest US maker is now Ford at #4... Honda comes in at #7 with an extremely limited line up of vehicles compared to Ford, GM or even Toyota and heck they don't even build a single true pick up truck which is what puts Ford where they are......
Yep you could not pay me to own a Chrysler or GM product unless things drastically change in terms of quality but we've only seen meager increase in quality with those two since the early 80's. Sad really because I really like the Suburban/Yukon/Denali but you could not pay me enough to own one. My next door neighbors are on their third transmission on their Denali in 4 years!!!!! I drove the US cars for 20 years, as company cars, racking up 60k -100k per year, and they simply did not compete with what my wife drove then or we drive today in terms of reliability.
We buy Honda's and Toyota's usually built right here in the US but by a Japanese company with strong reliability standards. While my other Toyota is not built in the US it has still proven to be one of the most reliable vehicles I have ever owned, 151k and only one head light and the cup holder clips broke. My wife's Pilot? The rear seat latch cable broke and we had to replace the radiator but that was at 172k miles it is now over 180k...... If the US makers could build vehicles that reliable I would buy one in a heart beat. For now Ford comes closest but no cigar...
If we Keep laughing at the Chinese & we keep burying our heads in the sand on the quality they can and do produce, we will soon be eating with chop-sticks....
The idea that the US only builds quality and the Chinese build junk has more holes in it than a screen door.....Buy American when you can and the quality is good if not then focus on quality not where it was made... Every country out there is capable of building quality..
