Buy American Or Shun American?

U.S. automakers are lucky more customers haven’t deserted them, to judge by an Associated Press/AOL Autos/Ipsos Public Affairs survey. As you can see from the chart, people who own a car (or expect to get one soon) prefer American vehicles to the foreign variety. When asked to say which country generally makes the best cars, though, just 29 percent opted for the U.S. Forty-four percent picked Japan, with another 15 percent citing Germany. The poll’s most stunning number: Asked whether they’d “ever consider buying an American car,” 36 percent of respondents said “no.”