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got an essay going for my research paper. i got the thesis which is the title & 2 supporting arguments. need to come up with a beefy 3rd supporting argument for my 3rd body paragraph.

thesis: foreign vehicles are far more superior than american vehicles


maybe someone here can help me think for an 3rd body paragraph of why foreign cars are better than american. also need hard facts and/or sources to back it up with as well
(not here to start a debate, this is for my pursuasive essay)

my first 2 are:
-reliability: quality engineering/technology
-safer
-???




(mods move to off topic if necessary, thought i'd put it here since its auto related)

 
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fuel efficency, power to weight ratio those might go with what your first two.

 
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i used the fuel effiency and power per liter in the reliable body. under as engineering.

gotta think about power to weight ratio. its too specific for a body paragraph

 
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Looks.... hahah, all US cars looks like crap!

 
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Customizability

 
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One of our members talked about the differences in build tolerance levels in American cars and Japanese cars...how it was an American man who was responsible for making Japanese cars what they are known for.

 
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its funny that you brought this up, US companies sell better cars to foreign countries too. the same happens to most european car companies too in their own domestic markets. bmws and benzs are usually sold as econoboxes in europe while they are sold as more luxury in the US. Cars like the Ford Focus sold in Europe is a better built and more luxurious car compare to the US version. im suggesting that foriegn cars are better than domestic cars becuase they need to be marketed as 'better" cars so people will buy them. You could put as your supporting argument that foriegn cars are better cars becuse car companies market them to a foreign market as a better car.

 
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It might be better if you made your arugment a little more specific.

The term "foreign" can entale japanese, european and korean automakers. Japanese build there cars differently then European cars, so one statement about a foreign maker may not apply to another, thus leaving a hole in your arugment.

you can talk about business philsophies are well, specifically Japanese and American companies are run. Japanese companies would rather the customer pay extra money and have a good quality car and have the customer buy other models down the line because of the good driving experience they had with other models.

American companies tend to make cars cheaper and offer more bang for your buck pricing, or offer performance at a cheap price for example srt-4 and offer longer warranties to get customers to buy their cars. If you compare similarly equiped japanese car and similarly equipped domestic, the domestic tends to be cheaper. This is more a mass production philsophy; with the idea of making a lot of cheap cars to get customers to buy them.

It's not like American companies can't make there cars as reliable as japanese cars, they basically choose not too. Both ford and chysler have access to Japanese production methods via there controlling shares of suburu and mitsubishi, but chooses to only adapt the ones they like and keep the rest the same.

Anyways there's a sample right there. Like i said, change your topic from foreign to some thing more specific. Your current topic is too broad to make a definitive persuasive essay.

 
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yup.

edward w. deming is the name you're looking for. he basically pioneered the business and quality control procedures the japanese use today. domestic manufacturers would rather go cheap on the cost and warranty a part, rather than build the part right in the first place. ford even openly admitted this.

 
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I would definetly touch on higher fuel efficiency and cleaner emissions.

Innovation may be another thing to touch on.

 
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imports rule..o0 yea tell ur teach how the 7thgen rocks just dont mention any performance n gains

 
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For the safety thing, you could say because of the stringent rules in Europe, a lot of cars here have a lot of features due to the rules in Europe. There are even things for people outside of vehicles that will prevent injury/death. They do that becuase more people die becuase of vehicle-pedestrian accidents. That already has affected the design of some cars so the front end is shaped differently.


They bring in more jobs to the economy. GM has a lot of its plants here, so they can sell their cars cheaper. Foreign companies have followed. Toyota, Honda and a lot of the European car companies have made plants here to produce vehicles locally which in turn hire people that haven't been able to get jobs. As more people buy cars they need to make more cars here, and that makes more jobs.

lastly, the title should be "Foreign vehicles are superior to domestic vehicles" or something along those lines.

 
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i was gonna say design. break it up a bit so that the reader isnt bored to death. your professor might not be a car nut, so if he has to sit there and read about fuel economy and build quality and "customizability" hes just gonna lose interest.

if i were you, id talk about engineering/quality, then safety standards and if one of the sides is ahead of the curve and revolutionary and pushing the boundaries, and then talk about aesthetic design differences and quality of materials and the feeling you might get from sitting in a typical foreign car to sitting in the typical domestic car. take the corvette or the viper (american "exotic") vs a ferrari or aston martin (real exotic).

btw, i wouldnt necessarilly only talk about how foreign cars are better/superior...because that can definitely be disputed. make your case, but then look at it from both sides of the coin and in the end try to prove your case by supporting it with the evidence from both sides.

 
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Yeap, thats toally true, except Hondas get downtuned when they come here in canada..especially the EP3.. !!! Same with the DC2..and DC5..

but thats all going to change..vics are getting more beefed up for 06, same with the new ITR..and i dunno if any of you guys heard anything about the...new NSX. I heard a rumour of a 8 cylinder engine.