No matter how you play the numbers game, count the number of US auto makers in business before 1990 compared to today.
The American consumer should be
ashamed of what HE did to the US market, they are completely devoid of any national pride.
I wish my father, who fought as an infantryman 4 years thru the entire Pacific Theater was hear to tell you what he thinks.
The UK car industry has been even worse hit, it no longer exists - Jaguar/Land Rover is Indian, Rolls Royce and Bentley belong to BMW and VW and so on.
There are Toyota and Ford plants, none British, except the labour.
I don't blame lack of national pride though. I blame the domestic banking and stock market "industries".
Only interested in short term big profits they, unlike the German financial system (and maybe the Japanese) don't invest long term.
So when the VW Beetle became unpopular VW stopped making it and made a vast investment in designing and tooling for the Golf whilst in the English speaking world low investment left the companies trying to re-style and sell the same old stuff and customers weren't fooled.
So I blame tha Anglo-Saxon approach to banking and investment to the demise of both the US and UK vehicle industries, not the customers who just bought what they thought was best for them.
I have owned UK built cars in the past, but the only ones left make London Taxis, even
Morgan has been sold.