Why no one buys an American car...

I am sorry to report that today the car I drive, a 1996 Intrepid, just ate it's 4th or 5th water pump in 10 years. Yes, I suppose that it's nice that it's still going reasonably well at age 10, but really that's ridiculous number of water pumps to chew through in a decade. On average this car destorys one water pump every two years.

Moreover, this was a line of cars that was introduced in 1993, Chrysler had three years to figure out that the water pumps on these things were bad. Yet they did nothing, no redesign, nothing. So owners of this car keep buying the same design of water pump that we know will be shot in two years. The engineers at Chrysler either didn't know or didn't care. All the incentive programs and 0% financing deals in the world won't matter until the product is better.

To sum this problem up in a paraphrase: It's the cars, stupid.
Tags: American Cars, Chrysler, Stupid