[Rick Lee]

The worst Ford ever built is light years better than the best Trabbi or Wartburg. You truly live in an alternate universe if you don't know that. The $400 beater pick-up I drove in college was solid as a rock compared to the many Trabbis I have personally helped push out of the road. And Ford is one of many, many car makers from which I can choose to buy on a whim. In East Germany you could buy Trabbi, Wartburg, Lada, Zil, Skoda, Dacia and the Polish Fiat Pandas. That was it and they all had over a decade wait to get. IIRC, those cars were around 13k Marks new. That was serious money to those folks.