Why would anyone buy a Toyota if he can a Mazda?

a few more years of -65 billion dollar trade balance we may be back to shoeing horses and building wagons.

That's correct. The sellers of foreign made products are financing our unemployment assistance.

The problem is that the net tax revenue for foreign made products is considerably less than that for domestically made products.

Horse manure was a problem before the invention of the automobile.

-- Ron

Hiring people to collect that manure could help the people laid off by Toyota.

Still is.

I would expect the roads to have been more peaceful when everybody rode a horse. Even the bike had little to fear other than slipping on manure.

Nowadays, an SUV simply crushes you.

I'll give you that. SUV's suck. Show me a soccer mom who has to tail gate and intimidate in one of these and I'll show you a female with a broken vibrator.

A soccer mom with a broken vibrator and an SUV is a dangerous combination.

I think they get testosterone rushes from driving such vehicles and want to bite.

As far as I know, there's no statutory or regulatory limitation on top speed of a US car.

That's a gentleman's agreement between BMW and Mercedes.

Not officially, true.

:-)

There is no statutory limitation, but there is something called litigation, which is BIG in the USA - so manufacturers 'voluntarily" limit the performance of their vehicles to what they consider to be "sane" or "legally defensible" levels of performance - something more than the top 15 performance drivers in North America could be expected to handle safely.

American roads are unsafe at any speed, often because idiots (mostly in Toyotas) drive too slow.

I found this car to be truly unique, inspiring and yet a bad idea for American stupid roads...