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

I think of it in more simple economic terms.

Pay some yokel $40 per hour, plus benefits, to bolt on a bumper.

You're financially doomed.

I know. A guy retired from Ford Union told me he used to go golfing on company time.

A formula for success. ;)

Pay now, or pay later. And I own a 2009 Ranger.

A lot of my neighbours have good jobs because Canadians and Americans buy Toyotas (and Hondas too)

OK, they guy is retired. ;)

I love that little truck. That was designed with Mazda, right?

I don't know if Mazda was co-designed, but their truck is a re-badged Ranger.

Who's the original and who's the fake? Collaboration is good though. Escort was a PS until Mazda lent a hand. But the European Escort was even better.

A lot of politics into cars too.

I think the Ranger was first.

Witness so many good cars not allowed into the U.S. due to top-speed numbers. The RX-8 is a mere shadow of what it could have been.

My Bimmer is limited to 155, and the list goes on and on...

Big Brother is doing a great job at punishing the smart ones.

And Toyota comes under the radar. Sneaky of them, don't you think?

Mazda and Ford are pretty good guys, except for Ford's dinosaurs.

I don't buy a car based on looks. But since you mentioned it, Mazdas are butt ugly. They have that stupid looking grin on their grills. What's up with that...

It's a mean smile, not meant to intimidate like an SUV. ;)

some comes back in the form of buying american companies and our debt neither one is a good thing Losing a job is not a good thing either many people never recover from that.

The Twin Cities plant also builds Mazdas? Didn't know that.

The US Mazda Pickup Trucks are just thinly disquised Rangers - at least for now. Not sure what happens when Ford finally kills off the Ranger. I suppose Mazda will go back to importing their trucks.

Ed

Ya' think? I only expressed surprise that they were built in the Twin Cities Ford plant.

"Frank Berger" wrote in news:TLidnQy1drWkBVrWnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@supernews.com:

Its too bad your high school economics class was so poor. You should have taken it twice apparently. KB

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the first small ford pkup was a mazda, and now the mazda is a ford. interesting turnaround. KB

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