rev your engines today I'm going to talk
about the ten worse and best car manufacturers that sell cars in the
United States but I'm not going to include the European companies because
I don't advise anybody to buy those for various reasons I'm talking about all
the others now I'm gonna start with the worst ones and number one as the worst
manufacturer of car sold in the United States its Fiat Chrysler no surprise there
Chrysler had low quality problems to begin with it fooled the Germans when
they were damla Chrysler the Germans lost billions I'm at the owner they dump
them and then Fiat bottomed out well it's like going from the frying pan into the
fire having Chrysler and Fiat merged now Fiat
itself left the United States decades ago and it came back but look how horrid
their car sales are going now the actual Fiat brand in the United States sold
less than a thousand vehicles in June of 2019 fool me once shame on you fool me twice
shame on me well the Americans don't want to be shamed so they're not buying
these Fiat but of course the Fiat technology is in many of these Chrysler
cars the engines the transmissions and a lot of it is pure garbage I've had
customers who bought brand-new once the engines blew up at 40,000 miles the
transformations never even shifted right in the first place
they're just terrible vehicles and I would advise to stay far away from them
so if you only listen to one thing that I say make sure that you don't buy a
Fiat Chrysler product if you value your money now the second worst vehicles as
far as I'm concerned our GM vehicles it doesn't matter if you come GM GMC
Cadillac whatever they're all owned by General Motors I remember when I was a
kid dad a song what's good for General Motors is good for the USA what's a good
thing that that's not a truism anymore because if the country was in the same
shape as General Motors we'd be in dire straits then I learned to drive on a
Chevy Biscayne was like a boat you didn't drive it you sailed it down the
road but it was a pretty bulletproof vehicle it ran and ran and ran
but it was in Niagara Falls New York so everything rust there and eventually the
body rusted out but we saw the tool gauger in a junkyard
he took the engine out and put it in his junkyard truck that he went around
picking up junk with and drove us for years and years
the engine kept going but sadly if you jumped it today General Motors products
just aren't what they used to be their quality control is there moving a lot of
production to China it'll move it all over there I don't know get better
quality control but to stop there make it over here many of my customers that
had GM products told me they will never buy another one if they bought one that
was made in the last eight ten years especially we were talking about small
or cars GM never really made very well built small cars overall the company
just doesn't show that they're making quality products anymore I'd stay away
from them to the number three on the list is Nissan they kind of merged were
taken over by Renault a couple decades ago not for me it's a sad case because
when I was young they were called Datsuns and they were little cars that
could run forever then they came out with the sports cars
the 240 Z's and they were great sports cars after they merged with Renault and
yeah the early 2000 ones they could be okay that was after the merger but you
go 2006 or above there you're making a lot of junk I had customers with them
40,000 miles the mufflers fall off I mean that's a simple thing if they
can't even weld a muffler in a car correctly think what they're going with
the rest of the cars I mean horrible transmissions and they make a lot of CVT
transmissions to just fall apart I see more Nissan's with CVT is going out and
then people find out that hey it's gonna cost me six eight thousand dollars to
put another transmission in and the cars worth three or four and they just junk
the car so stay away from Nissan if you value your money the number four on my
list Kia I would not buy a Kia not if you're cheaper you want to save
some money they can be okay cars if you don't drive more than a hundred thousand
miles or keep more than six or eight years just keep your mind they don't
have the quality and you're not saving all that much money I did a video the
other day and I showed that back in 2008 if you got a Kia SUV $6,000 cheaper than
the rare for SUV and even though the quality was a lot
I worked on one the other day it had 50,000 miles in the air-conditioning had
already broken the compressor went out on it but if you compare a 2019 Kia SUV
to the 302 rav4 you were saving less than two thousand dollars buying a Kia
and for that small amount of money hey I'd buy the Toyota every time if you
went a long lasting cart it doesn't give me any troubles you don't buy a Kia, now
the last manufacturer and I wouldn't buy a car from I rate as low is mitsubishi
they've always been cheaper made cars many of my customers with Mitsubishi's at
an early age they burned a lot of oil I
don't know why they can't learn from history they've always had cheap piston
rings they just burn oil as they age go back three decades ago I had a customer
who wanted blue smoke looked like they were fumigating for mosquitos driving
down the road often you can only get parts at the dealer where the prices are
extremely high and a lot of people don't know how to work on them so you go to
the dealer you're gonna pay outrageous prices to get them fixed so even though
they're cheaper to buy they can be much more expensive to fix and really there's
so much choice these days and decent vehicles why would you go and try to
save a little bit of money get anyone that's a lot cheaper made the piston
rings wear out the engines burn oil now yeah they do cost less that's how they
sell them you can get a Mitsubishi Mirage they started like $13,000 that
said I've had customers that were happy with them for a while they don't fall
apart as soon as you buy them and since they're a cheaper car people always want
to buy something that cost less but if you're really value your money over time
it'd be better off buying a used Toyota or use Honda then you would be buying a
brand new Mitsubishi also probably last two to three times as long as you keep
them a long time, now here comes the five best ones
number five is Subaru which might surprise you cuz I generally tell people
I'm not a Subaru fan I'm not a Subaru fan but lately they've been making some
interesting engine designs if you live in a snowy area the system in a Subaru is
pretty much one of the best systems out there there
are the ones that really want whole-hog I'm all wheel and four-wheel drive
systems I got that down pat you live where there's a lot of snow but Subaru
may not be a bad idea I know in the past that head gasket problems their
automatic transmissions or garbage I still tell people today if you really
have a choice the Subaru get a standard transmission no number four is Mazda now
I'm not a big miles to fan myself but there are reasons you could buy a ma so
let's say you want a little cute sports car you can't beat the Mazda Miata for
the money there are excellent cars lately my customers with Mazdas they've
been reasonably happy with the vehicles they make some decent cars of various
types and they're pretty dependable vehicles now number three on my list of
the better made car is ford and I know people might say oh it's an American
manufacturer well their quality has gone up and they're more or less starting to
specialize here in the United States they're pretty much given up on a car
market they're only gonna be making Mustangs and they're gonna be stressing
pickup trucks and SUVs which as far as I'm concerned is a smart move on for
their smaller cars they weren't that well made they had problems so I Ford's
sticking to what they do best trucky type things hey I put them number
three on the list, and number two on the list is Honda, Honda actually makes the
best engines in the world their engines are even better than Toyotas Honda has
less engine related failures on their vehicles than even Toyota Honda's one on
the list for engines and Toyota's number two and just like Toyota they have a
wide range of vehicles you can buy and here again I'm just have really good
resale values because they're generally really well built cars but as they're
always warned people you got to do a little research on anything because some
of the newer Honda's that have the GDI turbocharged engines have an oil
dilution problem I wouldn't buy one of those until they ironed it out but that's
not often that honda make big mistakes, and of course Toyota
is the best car manufacturer period people go whine all they want say oh
they're not as quality as they used to be well nothing is but they're still
better than all the rest they hold up yeah you're gonna pay more for one but
there's the market for you Toyota's have insanely high resale values why because
people know they're good the market isn't gonna lie on that if cars are
crappy like Jaguars check their resale value, I get customers if
they're crazy enough they can buy a beautiful look and use Jaguar that's
seven or eight years old for a couple of grand, so now you know the bottom
five and the top five car manufacturers in the United States that you can buy,
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