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Originally Posted by
Francois Caron 
At that rate, it will take domestic car manufacturers at least ten years to regain public confidence, because that's how long their cars must last so that they can be seen as being as competitive as the foreign car manufacturers.
I've read some articles stating that the domestic automakers now have reliability / quality close to (or equal) that of the imports. But even so, as you say, it takes a five to ten years to bear that out.
I think the US makers have a lost an entire generation in the US; my sense is that the 30 - 45 year old group collectively doesn't buy American cars. Those who do are retiring soon and won't be buying many cars. Their hope is to convince the "millenials" to buy US or to do something so amazing that people like me will be swayed back. Or to hope that the Japanese as a whole screw up big time.
