A short essay of criticisms for the American auto makers.
I cannot understand why the CEOs at GM, Chrysler, and Ford don't smarten up. Ever since the end of the muscle car era, American cars have become worse and worse. Horrible build quality, ugly rubbermaid interiors that make me want to puke, not so great engines, the list goes on. It used to be the Japanese cars were the economy cars that everyone got as their first car, now it is the Fords, Chevys, and Dodges. Why don't they realize that what they are doing is not working. They rely too much on being like everyone else. There is nothing unique about american cars. I see concepts of future American cars and nothing excites me. I test drive American cars and they just feel cheap, and (usually) slow.
The new "thing" for car makers in Detroit is retro muscle cars that don't compete with anything other than base-model 3 series. They aren't that fast, they get horrible gas mileage, they can't turn foing above 15 mph. What is good about them? Do people like the plastic dashboards and flimsy knobs that fall off every time you turn the volume up on the budget stereo? Retro cars are dumb, get with the times and advance. People don't want 30 years ago, people want now, the future.
The American economy cars are another problem, they don't get good gas mileage, and they are slow and boring. Yeah, they will save you a couple bucks compred to the truck you usually drive but that isn't saying much. American aut manufacters need to find something they do good, and keep doing it. Back in the 60s Americans couldn't care less what type of cars the rest of the world produced, and it worked. Why don't they try that again? BMW is known for producing great handling luxary cars, and do you think they would just go and change their entire line up to fwd econoboxes? No, they continue doing what they are good at. American cars need better interiors, more exciting design, better reliability, and some sort of uniqueness that makes you love driving them.
