Detroit restaurant offers cheaper eats for domestic owners
We'll have to make sure to rent a Mopar when we're in Detroit for the North American International Auto Show next week. Tribute Restaurant in nearby Farmington Hills is running a special promotion to honor folks who buy American. Food is half off for anyone driving a Chrysler product or who works for Chrysler the week of the show, January 11-17. But don't think the folks at The Tribute are just fans of the Pentastar.
The promotion kicked off on January 4, with Ford being the honored marque through January 10, while GM owners will get their discount during the week of January 18-24. The final week of the month (Jan. 25-31), everybody can get in on the special deal. All American cars will be featured that week and the discount will even be extended to automotive suppliers and dealers. The discounts apply to just the food portion of your bill at dinner or Sunday brunch and reservations are recommended.
[Source: MSNBC]
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 3)
Torrent 6:28PM (1/05/2009)
It doesn't matter where it was built. Just where the company was founded (I guess.) If it was founded in America, there you go.
Hold on, dude... the Fusion was built in Mexico? NO WAY, MAN! There's a little-known fact!
Yaroukh 6:29PM (1/05/2009)
as long as the profit from your Fusion goes into UAW-workers' health-care and/or pensions, yes
good choice BTW
Mobius_1 7:27PM (1/05/2009)
Thank you Yaroukh, I was itching to say something along those lines after reading some rather uninformed comments. I guess that is a very good definition of what is "American" in this internationalised world.
BoneHeadOtto 10:13PM (1/05/2009)
"as long as the profit from your Fusion goes into UAW-workers' health-care and/or pensions, yes"
Well billions of our tax dollars just went to these companies to help pay the pensions. I pay taxes, does that count as domestic car ownership???
GotchaBut 6:27PM (1/05/2009)
So.............can I waltz in there and show the waitress the license/registrations for my two early '70's Mopars and get a fat deal?
Even though I drive a year-old Mazda as my everyday driver?
I think they gotta hook this brother up! :)
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Brn 7:20PM (1/05/2009)
So you're looking to cheat the system?
big j 6:28PM (1/05/2009)
What's with all these cheesy gimmicks? Are the discounts being offered to offset cash I'll be burning on repairs?
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Yaroukh 6:32PM (1/05/2009)
man Tata Nano is not domestic
SteveJ 6:31PM (1/05/2009)
More stupidity by people who don't know what they're talking about. (MSNBC too.)
What about foreign branded cars made in America with mostly American parts? Or does this only applied to foreign made cars with mostly foreign made parts?
Support American workers, buy a foreign branded car. Buy a domestic and keep Americans out of work. How patriotic are you?
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Conundrum 7:47PM (1/05/2009)
How about buy an American car made by Americans in America working for a Domestic company. Perhaps one of the following to name a few.
Malibu
Aura
F-150
Enclave
Acadia
Cobalt
G-6
Lucerne
Taurus-X
G-5
CTS
Taurus
STS
Corvette
Trailblazer
Explorer
DTS
Expedition
Escalade
Focus
Yukon
Sky
Ranger
Solstice
SRX
Escape
dinnercoat 2:33AM (1/06/2009)
Or how about I exercise my FREEDOM of choice and buy what I want.
FOREIGNER 6:44PM (1/05/2009)
but the Light bulb are made in China
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Mobius_1 7:30PM (1/05/2009)
But the Bud is brewed in the USA, so there. (Sounds like a Bruce Springsteen song)
AZZO45b 9:29AM (1/06/2009)
Budweiser, like the Miller & Coors is BREWED in the USA... but those companies are no longer AMERICAN owned corps.
Level 6:46PM (1/05/2009)
You are not seeing the big picture, It doesn't matter where the car is made either in Canada or Mexico if the home base resides in the U.S and has to pay U.S taxes on their profits etc etc essentially the money stays in the U.S and some of the profits are invested in the U.S , the down side when you keep money invested in the local market is like everyone else that lost their $$$ invested money in Wall street the big 3 were not immune to the loses...
Just because Toyota builds a car in the U.S it doesn't mean it's benefiting the U.S if the money (profit) made on the car made here goes back to their home market in Japan where they keep the money invested and as a result it helps their economy grow about the only thing it helps here is a few people with jobs.
Where ever the money is going that's the economy that will benefit from it. It's no longer of where things are built anymore that play a role like it used too. World economy is too complicated to understand.
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Aki 7:55PM (1/05/2009)
Flawed thinking.
How does Toyota stay competitive? By R&Ding cars for the USDM market. How do they keep costs down in the USDM market? By opening US factories. Who do US factories employ? Americans.
Only a person who latches on to some antiquated sense of patriotism thinks this gimmick is somehow a great thing.
Who cares about buying American, Japanese or German. Just buy what you want, ignore what the other jingoists think.
caddy-v 11:50PM (1/05/2009)
Aki,
I have a request for you. Take that last paragraph of yours and take it to South Korea and ask why they can export 664,000 cars to the US and only legally allowed 6400 cars from the US in due to lobbying from Hyundai.
Then do the same in Japan and ask them to abolish all the trade rules that Toyota and Nissan lobbied for to keep imports from all nations to a token minimum.
Protectionism anyone?
Level 6:00PM (1/06/2009)
Aki
Like you said the only thing it benefits in America is the employed here from working at a Toyota factory but where does the profits go? they go overseas.
"Flawed thinking"? you must not know anything about world economics, when you pump your gas every week who's benefiting from the that? exactly those oil countries from the $$$ profits. Does Dubai ring a bell??? It's the same with cars it's the same with every imported goods from companies that reside over seas, the profits go to their countries and as a result it helps boost their economy not ours.
Where do you live? do you care about quality of life here? Im not trying to be patriotic, its just is how it is.
Autblogist! 6:51PM (1/05/2009)
Since when was Farmington Hills considered Detroit?
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MoonRover 6:52PM (1/05/2009)
Great Idea, and don't let foreign owners park in the parking lot. I'm for supporting companies with home bases in THIS country, to hell with the foreign brands. That is not racist or protectionist, it is however smart, today it's the other man's job, tomorrow it's yours. It's your future.
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