| Author
|
Post |
 
|
|
Richard
F L I N T O I D
|
Just curious as to how many Flintstones drive an American product.
Richard |
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:08 am |
|
|
twotap
F L I N T O I D
|
YUP. 
|
_________________
"If you like your current healthcare you can keep it, Period"!!
Barack Hussein Obama--- multiple times. |
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:14 am |
|
|
Richard
F L I N T O I D
|
Me too. I love H3 Hummers and trying to get the wife to let me have one. This was a Flint car it's entire life until my Mother gave it to me two years ago. It has been stolen and recovered much to my wife's dislike, and my kid rear ended a person smashing the front all to heck. But, it keeps going and going.
Richard
|
|
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:20 am |
|
|
Opinionated
F L I N T O I D
|
You'd have to be crazy driving around Flint in a Honda.
nice car, richard. i like yer hummer, twotap! |
_________________
If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it. |
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:31 am |
|
|
kaypurdue
Guest
|
I drive a Honda. Bad, bad, bad, I know.
BUT... that Honda was assembled in Ohio, and gets 35 mpg. I get it taken care of at Honda of Grand Blanc, helping to keep the folks employed there.
I once asked my dad, who is a welder at Truck & Bus (or whatever it's called now), what exactly they built at the plant where he works. I'm car shopping at the moment to replace my husband's dying old Cavalier, and thought it would be neat to buy something that my dad helped build! He told me "if it's big, and it guzzles gas, we build it there." Upon further research I discovered they build, among other things, Sierra crew cabs and Isuzu medium-duty trucks.... not really the best things for us folks with 40-mile commutes to be driving.
If I was in the market for a big gas-guzzling truck, then YES, I would totally buy something Flint-made.
But since I'm not... I am looking at the Ford Focus, at least some of which are built in Detroit. That's the best I can do for a domestic car. |
|
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:39 am |
|
|
Richard
F L I N T O I D
|
My oldest kid has a Ford Focus and has over 100,000 miles it and it runs great. Let me tell you, he is not the best at maintaining a car either. It is an American product built by Americans.
Richard |
|
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:42 am |
|
|
Opinionated
F L I N T O I D
|
Ohio seems to manufacture a lot of foreign cars. Good point about getting it serviced of at Honda of Grand Blanc, helping to keep our local people employed. By the way, a lot of people who work there live n Flint!
Yes, kaypurdue, a lot of people in this city don’t realize that local plants do build Isuzu and other foreign-made products.
Ford Focus’ are alright, but I seem to have better experiences with Chrysler and GM products than Ford. |
_________________
If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it. |
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:17 pm |
|
|
twotap
F L I N T O I D
|
And of course this American Beauty.
Last edited by twotap on Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:27 am; edited 1 time in total |
_________________
"If you like your current healthcare you can keep it, Period"!!
Barack Hussein Obama--- multiple times. |
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:20 pm |
|
|
last time here
Guest
|
gmc 3/4 stretch cab.....13.4 mpg. (whew!) 
i want 2taps nova or a 63 tempest wagon 383 c.i. 
i've owned 2 foriegn vehicles my entire life.
mid 60s opal w/ n50 slicks 
68 yahama 250 big bear scrambler.  |
_________________
Guest post |
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:52 pm |
|
|
kaypurdue
Guest
|
The car I had before my current Honda was a '96 Ford Escort station wagon. It made many, many trips between Mount Pleasant and here when I was going to CMU. I drove it till it just about died, it had been paid off for almost two years when I finally traded it in, and the head gasket that was about to blow became Al Serra's problem, not mine. 
I loved that car and was amazed at how well it held up despite my poor treatment of it (I did my own oil changes but never checked anything else), which is why I'm looking at another Ford. This time I will have a bit more disposable income to take care of it properly. |
|
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:28 pm |
|
|
Flinn's Journal
F L I N T O I D
|
| I drive a Saturn Ion, made in Spring Hill, Tennessee. |
_________________
I HAVE SEVERED MY TIES WITH FLINTTALK.COM BECAUSE TROLLS CANNOT BE CONTROLLED ON THIS BOARD. |
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:52 pm |
|
|
omgasmurf
F L I N T O I D
|
| my ford explorer came from canada. |
|
|
|
Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:37 pm |
|
|
Ponycar
F L I N T O I D
|
2004 GMC Canyon, Shreveport LA
2006 Ford Mustang, Flatrock Mi. |
|
|
|
Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:03 am |
|
|
Dave Starr
F L I N T O I D
|
| 02 Lincoln, Wixom, MI. |
_________________
I used to care, but I take a pill for that now.
Pushing buttons sure can be fun.
When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way.
Paddle faster, I hear banjos. |
|
|
Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:58 am |
|
|
Tegan
F L I N T O I D
|
I drive the same car I drove in high school.... a 1994 purple pontiac sunbird convertible. its a little rusty, and the top had to be replaced, and the door is falling apart on the inside, but the engine in that baby is amazing.
my husband drives a honda civic. At first he drove an audi, but too expensive to insure, so he tried to sell it and barely got anything for it. He loves his honda civic for the gas mileage, but he really wants to get a cadillac cts someday.... the car my mom builds, and wants to buy me a malibu.... but i love my sunbird.
other than us, my parents have ALWAYS bought gm. in fact, my mother did not talk to my husband for a month after he bought his used honda. |
|
|
|
Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:25 am |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Register
Profile
FlintTalk.com Forum Index
> Open chat
