RIP Chrysler!!!

I was happy with Chrysler vehicles; up to 2004. Certainly not after, because of their abandoning good FWD cars. THX Daimler!

You should learn your facts or use your brain before you spout off your BIG mouth. The Chrysler vehicles we used to buy, mid sized cars, were lower priced than the equivalent Toyota, Honda, Nissan. The Chrysler quality was excellent.

Those cheap "Japanese" vehicles don't suit us, in fact most are too small for us to get behind the steering wheel. The cheap Japanese cars that fitted us were back in the 70s, when I bought 3 Datsun 510s.

I like it... does that mean "we" got bigger, equatorially speaking?

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Didn't there used to be car import quotas in the US? This resulted in only bigger, higher margin cars being exported to the US. As the quotas fell away more smaller cars came into the US.

The rest of the world manages very well with 'small' cars. In many city streets American 'full size' cars are just physically too big to be of any use.

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Japanese cars have steadily gotten larger for the most part over the years. You don't see Honda AN600 sedans or coupes anymore. The Nissan Sentra and Altima are quite a bit larger than the 90's versions. American cars have shrunk lately such as the Chevy Aveo.

Much of that has to do with high taxes on gas in those countries. England has been upwards of $9/gallon. Do that here in the USA and demand for tiny cars will skyrocket.

The Honda Accord is officially a full-size car, it has so much interior room. So your statement is not only false, it shows an incredible lack of basic research.

So get a motorcycle.

Do they come with airbags?

By whose standards? Compared to what? The Accord is certainly not a full sized car compared to the traditional decades old use of the term.

Operatove word there is "old". Times have really changed.

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Car Classifications certainly have changed. I rent a lot of cars from Thrifty and Avis. It may just be a pricing thing with Avis but they consider a Toyota Corolla and PT Cruiser now a mid-size car, a Malibu and Sebring a full size and a Charger/Impala as premium size. Things certainly have changed.

The quality of your typing is reminiscent of your criticisms of the automotive industry.

Those Japanese cars aren't cheap. You simply show your dumbness with your dumb statement.

Are you sure that's an American car?

Then what do you call the a brand new car thats comparable in size to the traditional older full sized vehicles? What do you call those older full sized vehicles? Cars like the Accord were called mid sized. The original Accords of years ago were compacts.

In today's world the old size cars would be called "barges" or "behemoths".

In Germany they were known as Strassenkreuzer (road cruisers)

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