I got me a Mazda 3

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Nice. Hey do you know if Mazda 3s are made by the Ford factory or the Japanese Mazda factory. I never trust American cars. I'm either gonna get this or a Scion tc.
 
Well, the Mazda 3 is a Japanese design, and Americans do a good enough job building other countries' cars, so I don't think you have to worry.
 
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Nice. Hey do you know if Mazda 3s are made by the Ford factory or the Japanese Mazda factory. I never trust American cars. I'm either gonna get this or a Scion tc.
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I just checked edmunds.com, and the site says Mazda 3's are built in Japan. If they are correct, it's obviously an Mazda plant. Personally, I'd take the 3. Probably better handling, choice of zippy engine(2.3L, I believe) or economy(2.0 I think :D), styling that would rival tC, and it's more practical with 4 or 5 doors.

Many Japanese cars are better quality than American cars, but it's not as simple as Japanese cars: good, American cars: poor, anymore. I own an Nissan Altima which I've had for about 2 1/2 years. No problems yet, which is good, but I don't think the build quality is any better than Fords. Times are changin' :)
 
Ah... but the Altima is an American car with a Japanese badge... I don't even think they build them anywhere else (the Maxima gets built as the Teana elsewhere... but the Altima seems to be all-American).

It's never a matter of the flag under which the badge was printed... it all boils down to the quality of the work done on that particular car, on that particular assembly line. Mazda makes some nice cars, but then, they also assemble some turds. Same goes with any other car maker... only some have a better turd:honey ratio. :lol:
 
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Nice. Hey do you know if Mazda 3s are made by the Ford factory or the Japanese Mazda factory. I never trust American cars.
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*sigh*

Oh, man, do I hate this kind of uninformed opinion. Cars of all manufacturers can have problems; cars of all manufacturers can be great. Everybody complains about Neons being American POSs but I had two and I drove the daylights out of them with virtually no problems in 100,000 miles on each car. My older Toyota was a total money pit and always needed work.

It's just totally inane to classify a certain country's cars as crap and another's as wonderful.
 
I know every car company can build horrid cars, but in my personal experience Japanese cars seems to have less problems. And yes, most Nissans sold in the States are build in the States, but which manufacturing techniques do you think they use to build them? Ford's? I don't think so.
 
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I know every car company can build horrid cars, but in my personal experience Japanese cars seems to have less problems. And yes, most Nissans sold in the States are build in the States, but which manufacturing techniques do you think they use to build them? Ford's? I don't think so.
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It's not the manufacturing technique that decides the quality, it's the design and engineering. And the Japanese simply do it better than we do. You could have two different cars come out of the same factory on the same day, and the one with the better engineering behind it will be the better car, even though they were "made" the same way by the same people.

I don't know why people get so defensive about the "American cars suck" thing. I've owned five cars in my time. Three of them were American, and I hated 'em. Two of them were Japanese, and I loved 'em. Simple as that. That's not from internet opinion or anything, that's my own personal observation.
 
I don't know why people get so defensive about the "American cars suck" thing. I've owned five cars in my time. Three of them were American, and I hated 'em. Two of them were Japanese, and I loved 'em. Simple as that. That's not from internet opinion or anything, that's my own personal observation.
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Im afraid that the gap is closing fast. American cars build quality is fast improving because they realized that they need to improve to compete with the Japanese. If you look at build quality alone (not interior materials, they still look cheap) it isnt all that bad now. Its just the prejudice people have against American manufacturers. That's why people don't buy them anymore; they sucked, and now they're keeping away.
 
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Im afraid that the gap is closing fast. American cars build quality is fast improving because they realized that they need to improve to compete with the Japanese. If you look at build quality alone (not interior materials, they still look cheap) it isnt all that bad now. Its just the prejudice people have against American manufacturers. That's why people don't buy them anymore; they sucked, and now they're keeping away.
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Too bad it took forever for Detroit to realize what they were doing wrong. :rolleyes:
 

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