4 Out Of The Top 5 Best-Selling Cars In "Clunker" Program Made By Foreign Companies

[evildevil]

Many 'Clunker' Dumpers Buy Foreign

Four of the five top-selling cars in the government's "Cash for Clunkers" program are made by foreign automakers, according to new data released Tuesday by federal transportation officials.

The trade-in program has proved so popular that the government is in danger of running out of money for the rebates; Senate

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[akuma_river]

San Antonio, Texas loves you all for buying Toyotas...not that we are in as big a ditch as Detroit but they thank you anyways.

A lot of people forget that the 4 foreign companies are only called that because the headquarters is in a foreign nation...the parts are made here, the cars are made here, the employees are mostly Americans (hell I remember when I living in SA and they were asking us in our Japanese class to try out for a job to be a translator), the dealers are American, and they will ALL spend their money in AMERICA!!!

seriously...people bitching about Obama drinking a bud because it's now a foreign company? We can buy it out again...maybe. Still it's an AMERICAN DRINK!

...apologies for bitching.

[schonste]

Re: Bud. It absolutely is an American drink. If the Czechs tasted what had become of their namesake I think they would sue everyone. :P

[akuma_river]

Czechs? namesake?

[schonste]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery

[akuma_river]

Ah.

Didn't know that.

Weiser used to be how my family spelt their name until a century and a half ago? So I thought it was just named after someone.

So you saying the American Beer version is crappier in taste than the Czech's?

*doesn't really care since she doesn't drink and is just curious*

[schonste]

I'm not entirely sure how the US Budweiser came about; I don't know if it was just a using of the name, or bringing the Budweiser here and then bought it out for the American sector so they could do to it what they wanted, blah blah.

All I know is that US Budweiser is utterly embarrassing in comparison to the Budweiser you'll get that actually comes out of the Czech Republic. XD

[iworktodeath]

omg does that job still exist? jlpt 2ish person here. very unemployed.

[akuma_river]

I'm not sure. They were asking back in 2006 when the plant was being built.

I no longer live in San Antonio. I was just mentioning that these plants are in the US so it's still technically us made. It's just the company headquarters is based in Japan.