# Theres a new name atop the big 3 manufacturers

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**Created:** [May 27, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/theres-a-new-name-atop-the-big-3-manufacturers/197678 "2008-05-27T13:41:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/theres-a-new-name-atop-the-big-3-manufacturers/197678/108 "2008-06-07T13:16:05Z")

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> [@looking for x-mas vaca spot](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-x-mas-vaca-spot/36708/14):
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> Olds owners…can’t quite get the Cadillac huh bud?

I’d take almost any Olds (RWD - Cutlass, Eighty Eight, Ninety Eight, F85, etc) over a Caddy anyday. Olds went out of production because GM built a bunch of junk with different names on them to make each division’s vehicles. Once the sales dropped (due to lack of interest in their produucts) the division was kind lost in the shuffle. Oldsmobile was the top GM division thru the 70’s/80’s, until they dropped the RWD platforms (1988 - Gbody, 1996 - Bbody - RIP both). They should have dropped the name then, too, so as not to ruin it with the garbage they produced afterwards (Intrigue, Alero, Aurora, etc).

I agree Honda/Acura & Toyota build a hell of a car (dependiblility, build quality, performance). They just lack character & emotion. I had a 2006 Acura TL. Nice car but rather boring. Too expensive for what it was. It still drove like a Civic. This is good & bad as a Civic is a nice car, but not $36K nice.

I am in no way trying to defend american vehicles here, but I think the american car manufacturers are turning around & are finally building some damn nice vehicles (they are just on a slower curve than the imports). The build quality, fit/finish, dependibility, & performance is many steps above what it used to be. There was a time when the imports sucked, too.

> [@10/7/07 - My Bubble Tea, 8 PM, \*\*\*NYSpeed Discounts\*\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/10-7-07-my-bubble-tea-8-pm-nyspeed-discounts/36537/50):
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> what’s honestly wrong with elton john???
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> makes good tunes, besides he’s a fruitloop. makes good tunes.

x2. Your showing your age, Shaggy.

> [@2008 STi](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2008-sti/31541/130):
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> The reason y so many foreign cars have lasted through the 90’s is because the foreign market had preset scheduled maintenance that there customers must follow were GM or Ford didnt make it mandatory. Gm and Ford customers on the other hand only bring there cars in if something is wrong.If the GM or Ford customers had regular maintenance done u would see that most of them could last as long as the foreign cars did in the 90’s

> [@Fs: 1985 BMW 325e](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-1985-bmw-325e/28411/46):
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> I 100% disagree.  
> :ugh2:

:stupid:

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