What the ??????
This thread started out about the Rem 700 , now swampman has you all gabbing for about 40 mpg cars .
But ill bight .
Anyone here remember why the Canadians even have car plants?
How many know that a lot of Suzuki�s are built here in the US under GM licensing and have been for decades . I have 3 Suzuki sidekicks 2 are US made and 1 is Canadian made . All three get 27mpg + .
My daily driver is a 89 Suzuki sidekick and I regularly pull 30-35 if I keep my foot out of it .
Its also on its 3rd engine . All of which have averaged over 200,000 before going south.
THE GEO tracker is also the same vehicle just with GM Label
My 4X4 is a 1970 IH scout 800A . New it got 10-14mpg .. In 90 I upgraded the carb to a TB and it went to 21 mpg . In 2005 I swapped engines and went to TPI and it now gets 30 .
On top of those I have a 2003 dodge 1 ton and a 2004 PT cruiser. Pop the hood and pick a part . Chances are that even if it was assembled here in the US, the part or at the very least the material used to make the part , comes from out of this country . I don�t care what buy today your far more likely if you trace the manufacturing , to find a foreign company somewhere in the mix of things .
This includes items we think are US made .
Swampman touts the Remington products . that�s fine . But where do the barrels come from ?
They maybe bored , turned and rifled here , but where does the steal blanks come from . Even if we can say with certainty that the blanks are also made here in our foundries , where is the actual steal coming from .
Same goes with the plastics for the stocks . They may be cast here . But where does the plastics come from . Even if you say US companies like DuPont or DOW . But guess where they get a lot of their chemicals from
I wish I could afford the Volt.
LMAO seriously . I find that rather Hypocritical considering the 90% of the electronics are not manufactured here . The battery technology isn�t from the US . The parts that are US made are again produced with imported materials
The reality of it is that we have done this to ourselves by allowing the cost of manufacturing to go through the roof , while at the same time not increasing the quality of the material we do produce .
Then you have the public mentality like swampmans . BUY AMERICIAN MADE .
Then in the next sentence bitch about the resulting cost of that product .
The simple fact is that a vast majority of people cannot afford to buy a US product that�s produced by their own demanded wage not to mention the continual added cost of regulations ..
Even if you look at the food we buy on the shelves . Be it meat , to vegetables and fruits . Every year more and more of it is being imported . Even the majority of the lumber in our homes , does not really come for the US anymore . A whole lot of it is coming Canada or China .
Add into all that foreign companies buy up US manufacturing . So while you maybe buying something assembled here . Your maybe working for a foreign owned , or partially owned company
Simply put companies HAVE to move production to compete because the American public simply will not pay the additional cost that is reflected by our own stupidity.
We have turned this country into a country of consumers not producers ..
So once again swampman has entered a thread , disrupted it with his stupid ass of the wall , ill informed trolling, one line remarks
In this thread alone he has 20 posts . Not 1 of them with any information concerning the topic at hand