http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/18272208/detail.html Foreign Cars Targeted By Vandals POSTED: Saturday, December 13, 2008 UPDATED: 5:49 pm EST December 13, 2008 WOODHAVEN, Mich. -- It seems the economic conditions and the auto industry crisis is turning some Americans against Americans. Woodhaven police said four cars on Friday, all produced by foreign carmakers, had two tires slashed and "Buy USA" written on them. Police said three of the cars were parked in a strip mall in Woodhaven that sits next to a Ford stamping plant. Kim Lebecki's 2009 Toyota Camry was one of the four targeted by the vandal. "I work very hard to make the payment to drive the car of my choice in the United States and someone else has the audacity to destroy these vehicles," Lebecki said. "It saddens me to think, 'Is this a UAW member who did this?'" One of incidents was caught on a security tape. A red Ford Escape is seen pulling into a parking space, a middle-aged man can be seen approaching a red foreign car and slashing both tires. The man can also be seen writing a message on the car before leaving. "We don't have any positive evidence to link a Ford employee with this incident," said Lt. Robert Harabedian, of the Woodhaven Police Department. Copyright 2008 by ClickOnDetroit.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Wow, thats pretty crappy. I wonder if this type of stuff is going to get worse. I'm all for buying USA, but our companies need to start making cars people want. Companies like Nissan are killing them.
I wanted to buy a Ford Fusion for 16,500 but the cheapest on they had was 23K when I got to planet ford, so i went across the freeway and got me a 320Miles Per tank Corolla S for 17,800 from good old Fred Haas. I hope someone tries to vandalize my car and I catch them in the act. Your gonna see the news headline "Angry Corolla Owner Shoots And Kills Man" na jk, but seeing corolla and kill in the same sentence is funny.
back in the day, i did some consulting work and had coworkers working out there. one of my coworkers said that the gm people didn't like that he was rolling up to work in a BMW.
Well, it's not exactly a movement. It sounds like it's one guy vandalizing cars, and that he'll soon be caught.
back in 95 these guys were staying with my roomate and I, they were from Detroit. back then they said people would get upset when they saw someone driving a foreign car and that no one drove them. Now my brother works for Gulf States Toyota, their distributor here in this region of the country, and he says that detroit is probably their weakest market among large cities.
I expect that we'll see a lot of this, probably angry individuals. I drove by a Prt Arthur Chevy dealership last night where there was a huge fire. Whether it was or not, my first thought was that it was arson by a protestor/terrorist. My second thought was that it was an attempt by the owner to get out of the Chevy business before Congress took over the company.
He did buy USA. Camry's are made in the USA. In fact it ranked as the number 2 most American made car in 2007. 2007 American Made Cars
Isn't Nissan performing absolutely dreadful right now? Even worse than the Big 3? The companies that are killing them are Toyota and Honda.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...12/13/AR2008121302207.html?hpid=moreheadlines By Peter Whoriskey Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 14, 2008; Page A01 SMYRNA, Tenn., Dec. 13 -- People in this small town surrounding one of Nissan's busiest U.S. car plants have followed the news of the auto bailout with particular interest. Namely, they wonder, what about us? Nissan is a Japanese automaker, but the Altimas, Maximas and Pathfinders that roll out of the factory are built by locals who are "Americans too," they like to point out. And just like the other automakers, Nissan is inflicting some of the economic pain on its employees, cutting shifts and pay. For some, the most galling aspect of the bailout is that federal money could go to union workers and retirees -- people, mostly in the North, who at least historically have enjoyed higher pay and better benefits than Southern autoworkers. "Over here, we're taking days off without pay to keep the company going, but the unions for the Big Three aren't willing to do that," said Kathy Ward, 54, who has worked 27 years at the sprawling plant here. This year her pay has been cut $5,000 because of days off. "Everyone has to give a little in times like these." The bailout efforts for Detroit's Big Three are laying bare long-held resentments between union and nonunion workers, echoing North-South divisions as old as the Civil War. The negotiations brought out some sharp contrasts. Some Southern Republican senators, led by Bob Corker of this state, pushed to cut the wages and benefits that Detroit's Big Three pay to a level consistent with what foreign automakers pay to nonunion workers at plants throughout the South, such as the Nissan plant here. Ward's husband, Frank, who retired a few years ago from the Nissan plant, approves. Corker "hit the nail on the head," he said. "It seems like the United Auto Workers would rather have people lose their jobs than give up a few dollars in hourly pay.
