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From a consumer's point of view I have no sympathy for Ford or GM (or Chrysler, which is in an equal state, but hey let the Germans worry about that).
For years and years and years people have been crying for better quality cars from Detroit, and instead they get sheet metal slapped on the same old problems. Buy a car from GM or Ford you'll get five years out of it. Buy a car from Toyota you are pretty much garanteed something that will run until the engine falls out of it twenty years later.
Not to mention Detroit total inability to listen to the needs of the consumer. When gas prices started their creep towards $2.00 a gallon you would think GM would start to shift their focus from SUVs and Trucks to small cars? NOPE! Hey, the good times never end. SUVs for everyone!
Meanwhile Toyota and Honda (along with the smaller Japanese and Korea automakers) have been giving consumers what they want and have actually taken the time to think more than one year ahead. When the PRIUS came out it was sort of a cute novelity, now its The Car to have.
Ford and GM are great American Dinosaurs that should promptly be put out of their misery.
