Andy Rooney - American Cars

[@DouginHanover]

I bought a used 2004 Toyota Sienna in 2012. I still have it and the only time I have visited a repair shop was for tires and wipers. Before that I had Fords and I visited the shop almost every year with a problem--tie rods, transmission, etc.

[@Malignus68]

Same here. After owning several American-made cars, I now own a Toyota and will never buy another American car as long as I live.

[@lilibethdoherty295]

You were late to the Party my 1990 Corolla has only needed a Muffler, Starter and Alternator in 34 years of Terrific Ownership !

[@larrylaffer3246]

Toyota Sienna is quite possibly one of the nicest minivans ever built period. Now that you can get it in a hybrid drivetrain you can get Prius mileage with legroom and seats to spare so really a no brainer to get one these days.

[@dougackerman4182]

Great words

[@smadaf]

Best to worst reliability of makes of car in my family over the last forty years: (1) Toyota; (2) Volkswagen; (3) Dodge and Mercury. We still have a '95 Corolla, an '08 RAV4, and a '16 Corolla.

[@lelandfranklin3487]

He is right...we were a GM family for years, but too many issues and problems. We didn't leave them...they left us.

[@Mr.Derogatory316]

This episode leads to people emailing Andy and calling him out and Andy would do an episode about Who's Mad at Andy Rooney

[@kennethiman2691]

Well said.

[@adamsmashups4839]

Just the other day I was asking my buddy,"What the hell does Tiguan mean?"

[@tylertyler82]

German for whales penis

[@jpgrignon1]

i find this verry funny :-)

[@Seventizz]

I'd like to know how they come up with reliability studies. My dad has owned a Honda and a Toyota, kept them up regularly with proper maintenance, and both have died on the road. I've only ever owned GM cars and they have never died on me - well, except a used Riviera I bought where the transmission died 2 days after I got it - but that was promptly taken care of free of charge and it lasted me many years of trouble free driving.

[@garethbaus5471]

Polling a large number of vehicle owners and seeing if there are any trends, on the anecdotal side of things every GM car my family has bought ended up having at least one electrical problem, and I know several people with Toyotas that have around 300,000 miles.

[@smadaf]

This is the superiority of scientifically gathered and analyzed statistics to anecdotes.

[@samanthageso6887]

Meanwhile Mazda's cars are named 2, 3, and 6. Simple

[@2andramas]

:) I just realised this may be about cheaper cars, and its hard to find a cheap mercedes^^

[@tenorly]

MERDE-cedes. Nothing but trouble - and not even that distinctive anymore.

[@nomadcowatbk]

they even lost the geezers years ago

[@RobertJarecki]

This geezer owns an 06 Tacoma and a 49 Packard. Packard for show, Tacoma for go.

[@2andramas]

@Xalxitz and they are euopean xD btw they are not the best ones, only if u dont wanna spend more than 250 $^^

[@marshalllapenta7656]

Not 1 mention about value engineering.

[@woodworkerroyer8497]

I think it is funny he attacks the manufacturers over their names. I mean, if I was naming a car line, instead of having GM be Cadillac, GMC, Chevy, I'd have the Impalla B, Impalla S, and Impalla D. They would be Budget, Sport, and Decked out. I think having an Impalla and a Malibu be the same car with different features is stupid, why not just make one car and add better accessories as you spend more? His point about the reliability is spot one though. The only reason I would get a American vehicle is if I was getting a truck or an old 60s or 70s classic.

[@winmine0327]

They don't want the lower-budget vehicle to be so obviously so.

[@piper888]

Slug bug ❗

[@borisjankovici662]

22WSBT South Bend Indiana

[@stacie4170]

Ford rules…the last one MOSTLY American now

[@jsilva4847]

I love Japanese cars. If I'm going to spend so much time working for a car, it sure won't be a North American one. Quite simply, I don't trust them and I don't make nearly enough to take what I feel is a gamble.

[@Tails92Halcmm]

J Silva well, whoopee for you

[@garethbaus5471]

Every chevy my immediate family has owned has had electrical problems, you probably dodged a very unreliable bullet.

[@situated4]

You must be oh so proud. Bully for you, Winston.

[@michaelj.r457]

LOL, and the next week, he would get a series of hate mail for stating his opinion on U.S cars.

[@2andramas]

i dont wanna know who made this statistic, for there is no reliabale european car if u can trust it, and if i think of mercedes, bmw, ferrari, lamborghini...... this is wrong

[@woodworkerroyer8497]

Well, the reliability thing is probably based on normal people using them. Normal people dont have lamborghinis or ferraris (McLarens cost like $10k for an oil change so I can understand if a normal person lets it go longer without one and thus kill it reliability on the chart. Also, there are MANY more people driving US or Japanese cars than European or South Korean.

[@2tone70]

It's not the American auto makers fault, it's Americans who don't buy American made cars and trucks. I agree totally with "frozenhiphop09"; I had a '77 Ford LTD wagon with over 200k miles and never had a problem. This is American.............buy AMERICAN and support the BEST country/place on earth.

[@Robert_St-Preux]

I've owned two Chevrolet Astro vans from two different model years, both had the same defects in both the electrical systems and body. I've owned two Buicks from two different model years, same story, they had the same defects-the same piece of trim even fell off! How many chances should General Motors get from me? I've also owned a Ford Aerostar, which wasn't bad as far as it goes, but the engine was way underpowered for a van. It really struggled on hills if I had all my kids with me, which I frequently did. I don't believe any of these are this particular buyer's fault.

[@woodworkerroyer8497]

I get your point, but I feel that for the same money as a Ford or GM, I can get a Japanese car that will basically run for 100k miles without anything more than new oil, new tires, and maybe new brakes. Maybe people beat on American cars more than Japanese ones, but I just think that a company that had been in business as long as ford or gm would have figured out the bugs and not be putting out cars that have the same dumb problems as the last 5 years of that same model! If they want planned obsolescence, then at least engineer something different so people dont catch on!

[@garethbaus5471]

Every Chevy my immediate family has ever owned has had electrical problems, a car that sometimes loses all power including the lights and sometimes won't start isn't something that inspires brand loyalty. On the other hand many Japanese companies now manufacture cars in the US and I know multiple people with Toyotas that are around 300,000 miles.

[@idee7896]

US car maker Union and pension plans hurt the US car companies too

[@TheCrossroads533]

Well, my Chevrolet's still on the road. Andy Rooney is not.

[@bundeligafan]

Louis Varricchio yes that's because Andy Rooney is not a car, he's a human

[@TheCrossroads533]

Andy will not be coming down for breakfast.

[@woodworkerroyer8497]

@@bundeligafan I mean, humans have been known to live longer than cars. The oldest verified age of a person is 122 years and the oldest ford is a 1903 model t (117 years old). I get your point, but...

[@woodworkerroyer8497]

Dude, that is savage!

[@garethbaus5471]

And my Chevy somtimes randomly doesn't start(which has left me stranded a couple of times), we checked the battery, the starter, the alternator and the connections to the battery and they all seem fine but it still sometimes loses all power or wont turn over.

[@JackpodyDK]

Mercedes is probably the company with the most reliable cars in the world / automotive history.

[@stacie4170]

Need to get rid of unions.