I guess I can empathize somewhat when my Japanese-American friend made some negative insinuations about Harley Davidson in how it used the name "fat boy" for one of its motorcycles. This name was a diffusion and "refusion" of the names of the 2 bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Anyways, when I told him Honda held Harley for a few years i.e. trained them in efficient production processes, my friend sardonically wished that Honda would've let Harley sink to the ground.

jajaaja wow stupid people..amazing comeback +1

what did the corvette owner say? if u dont mind me asking.

I like this quote. I came from a FORD family and my father had always bought Ford (I still remember riding around in the original Bronco as a kid - Oil burning smell and all). But when his F-150 died, he and the mother did the research. Hardly any Ford Trucks are actually manufactured in America anymore. To cut costs, most of the assembly is done down south of the border. However, the Toyota Tundra is assembled here. And to add to this Toyota is continuing to BUILD plants here in the U.S.

So while the American manufactures have been out-sourcing their parts/labor it seems that (in Toyota's case any way) the foreign manufactures are taking interest in manufacturing over here.

It's very likely this year that more "foreign" nameplate vehicles will be manufactured in the U.S. this year than will be manufactured by the so-called domestic manufacturers combined...in fact it's been true for several years now that most of the foreign nameplates build in the U.S. most of the vehicles they sell in the U.S.

It was multiple owners, and they were criticizing me for not buying American.

Things like "Why didn't you buy a Corvette or Camaro instead?", "The Japanese people thank you for your support", "You're un-American.", "People like you are responsible for the American auto industry going broke.", ... You get the idea.

I thought the "Why didn't you buy a Camaro?" one was funny, since I'm pretty sure that the new Camaro was designed in Australia and is being built in Canada.

Even more interesting is that all of my previous cars, except for 1, were American (I even owned an American Motors Rambler back in the day)! I bought a 1987 Pontiac Trans Am during the first time that GM was trying to convince people that they made cars just as good as the Japanese - man, what a piece of crap that Trans Am was!

and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if their other car was a Porsche, Lexus, BMW, MB or Acura. :)

It sounds like some guys off the Corvette forum :) Buy American or else (funny thing is that some of their "American" cars were built in Mexico).

Oh yeah, they probably don't realize GM asia is a huge part of their profits, let's get the Chinese to stop buying the Buicks!

Ding, ding, ding - we have a winner! You are correct!

And it would surprise me even less that their restored and/or restomodded Corvettes are full of parts made in China, Taiwan, Mexico, ... :rolleyes:

you should've been like "i guess he didn't shoot down enough"

gotta have a come back that shuts up the crowd.

It appears my car is starting to get some attention... mainly gawking while stopped. My gf points it out. I can't be her because the shoulder line is well above her boobs to be noticed ;-)

Actually Nakajima manufactured the majority of the Zeros engines. ;)



PC is lame in most cases no arguement there. But saying this or any other racist remark directly to someone (esp nowadays )is pretty freaking stupid.

LOL I got some japanese american (ones a CHP officer)friends who would rip ya a new one if you said Jap to their face. :icon17:

"No I mean the Japs" :rofl2: LOL What a tool.


Good comeback though :tup:

Another possible retort.. "Well my dad used to shoot holes in those with his Panzer" And then give a loud Sieg Heil!! ;)

lol.