American Car Makes

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:30:40 -0400, Nate Nagel >
wrote:

>>>Chrysler engines have traditionally been far superior to Ford and GM's
>>>offerings (well, at least the lower priced lines, the old Caddy and Olds
>>>motors were pretty decent.) It's only in recent years that they've had
>>>issues. The old V-8s were all built like a brick ****house and the
>>>slant six was even more reliable.

>> Well, Nate, that is the same as saying Chrysler has sucked far less
>> than Ford and GM. Since the 60's or so, Chrysler has sucked compared
>> to what you can get elsewhere.
>
>IMHO since the early 70s, ALL American cars have sucked to some extent.
> Chrysler actually postponed the suckage longer and more effectively
>than Ford or GM. I still don't understand the comment about Chrysler
>consistently not putting in good engines; up until very recently they
>were still the best American engines out there and some were really
>world class... the LA, B/RB, slant six, 2.2/2.5, all very decent
>engines. What have the other guys been putting out? the 3800 is pretty
>good, like I said the older non-Chevy GM engines were good, but other
>than that...

No argument there. However, weren't a lot of the recent good Chrysler
engines Mitsubishi?