[larrymo49]

I agree Mud....

Here in the U.S. we make some of the best products in the world...and then we shoot ourselves in the collective foot by making things too expensive to compete.

That happens mainly due to labor costs where average U.S. workers demand (through unions and such) 25 to 30+ dollars per hour while the same products can be made overseas by workers making 4 dollars per hour.

So we all pay the price with often inferior parts from the outside or pay the really BIG bucks to go all American.

When I first learned about the French Peugot trans. in my Comanche I felt violated...It could have at least been..well.. anything BUT French...No wonder AMC couldn't survive.

I have a hard time forgiving the French anyway in WWII when they just let the Nazis stroll in and take over without a fight..and then..had to have us (U.S. and Allies ) bail them out in the end. But that's another story!

Larry