How do we make American cars great again?

You fix the abysmal build quality. It seems like unless they're building a truck rental-tier is good enough for most of the Big Three's cars.

Chrysler has stepped up there game. Drove a new 200s 3.6 awd and a 300s. Both felt smooth as silk. Buicks are way better now then the shit they built the last 20 years. Chevys still feel low quality as well as Fords. Im holding out for the new Continental 3.0 turbo.

We let the Big Three go under.

RWD

V8

Interiors that aren't a complete shit

American cars have never been great, only big. Greatness arises from challenges, not from abundance.

Emission and safety standards, diminishing IQ levels of the average driver, Niggers assembling the cars and unfirable because of unions.

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Deregulation of the auto industry.

Safety standards and CAFE are strangling cars, and the industry is deciding what the people want, instead of following what the people actually want. The industry is shilling hard for SUV's when they are really no better than a normal car, and in some cases, actually worse. as a result, the SUV has gone from a rugged 4x4 offroad truck, to the successor to the minivan, so that soccer moms can feel safe while men can feel slightly less emasculated because it's not a minivan and it has offroad capability that he will never use.

cars similarly, have been bloated and neutered by regulations. Cars were mostly fine until Obama took office and started going full ham on CAFE and other safety standards.

American cars were never great

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>>14685599
>Cars were mostly fine until Obama took office

>>14685612
the Panther platform died on his watch, m8. It no longer met roll over standards.

when the Auto industry crashed, the Federal Govt told them what they had to do and not do in exchange for the bailout. So we lost brands like Pontiac because despite GM planning to stage a Pontiac comeback, the feds said "lolno. cut it."

the industry is partially at fault here, but they probably should have been left to their own devices instead of the Govt stepping in. Sink or swim.

then he started tightening safety and fuel economy/emmissions standards because the left is all about safety and think of the children.

>>14685652

lol apparently every car needs a backup camera because 100 kids die every year

I'd rather they have a blackbox device or a dash cam than a fucking back up camera

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>>14685652
>scapegoating

>>14683783
This.

Also, give up all pretence of fuel economy and restraint. American cars are great because the designers didn't give a fuck about efficiency.
Huge fuckoff landbarges with big burbling V8 engines. Massive SUVs as big as a whale that seat 25. Big trucks as wide as a lane and able to haul a tank uphill with the brakes on.

Make them unsafe for pedestrians and drivers. Razor-sharp heavy chromed protuberances to break legs and shatter hips. Bench seats you can conceive children on, and enough seating to transport them.
SUVs that flip if turned above 5MPH. Pickups that need half a ton of ballast to get grip. Muscle cars that want to go everywhere sideways, with tuned amplified exhausts, enough power to propel an oil tanker, and 0-60 times comparable to European econobox hatchbacks because of all the bodywork and chrome.
Let them catch fire on impact. Let the brakes be advisory only.
Fuck safety. You can always make more kids, that's what the huge rear seat is for!
Drive-in movies would become great again. Parenthood would be mandatory to make up for the accident losses. You'd buy three cars a year just to keep up with the styles and fashions, and just send the old ones back to be melted down and updated, or sell them to your kids for pennies.

>>14685659
Back up cameras are nice, they really are, they make parallel parking a breeze, but they in no way should be a mandatory feature, because that just makes a new driver dependent on it. take away the backup cam and suddenly half of america doesnt know how to park anymore.

>>14685677
>president enters office
>tightens regulations
>his administration dictates what the industry can and cant do in order to get a bailout
>suddenly everything is a 4 cylinder bar of soap

>not somehow directly responsible

>>14685752
It was either that or closing down Detroit entirely because American cars were too outdated even for their own market by the mid 2000s, still following engineering and design philosophies from the 70s.

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>>14685751
>Let the brakes be advisory only.
Kek

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>>14685751

>>14685776
If it ain't broke don't fix it.

>>14685805
But it was broken, otherwise they wouldn't have gone broke.

>inb4 dis derr was dem eeeevil unions fault

>>14685751
not to mention you can have your cake and eat it too. theres no reason we cant have both.

there's no reason for a high end sportscar to have to follow the same safety regulations as a 5 seater family car.

Does someone who buys a snek really care about the same features like someone who buys a prius or a corolla cares about? I doubt it.

And someone who buys an SUV to actually use for it's original intender purpose does not have the same features a soccer mom cares about in her mall crawler.

>>14685807
the industry went broke because it was stupid, and you had idiots like GM who had like 5 different brands putting out the exact same cars with very little difference, cannibalizing their overall sales. You had pontiac, the 'excitement" division, putting out underpowered sedans, and GM management saying "it can't be more powerful than the corvette."

it went belly up because of horrible mismanagement, coupled with the sudden rise in oil prices changing demand

>>14685834
Okay, so somehow selling one car badged as a Chevy and one car badged as a Pontiac instead of two cars badged as a Chevy "cannibalized their sales".

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>>14683749
Leave it to Cadillac and hope basketball americans don't destroy their reputation.

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>>14685752
>the president has a say in how the institute of highway safety does crash tests
>the president has a say in European safety regulations which our world market platforms have to abide to
>the president influences the market made up of women and old people who buy new
hoo boy, thanks for the giggle anon

by this logic B-rock is responsible for the cheap gas too, thanks B-rock

>>14683749
By killing off the union fuckers

>>14685752
To be fair, I was driving my sister's new Jeep Renegade yesterday and went to look out of the rear window to reverse, and couldn't see shit. It was so tiny and the rest of the car was so bloated. I had to rely on the camera. New vehicles practically demand it.

>>14685918
>allow EPA more power to push their shitty regs
>sign bills padded with EPA and CAFE crap
pls