[Rhodes22-list] Ain't It Good To Be Alive And In Tennessee!

[Mary Lou Troy]

Our Nissan Frontier must be from the same plant. It's a great truck. 
Has a towing capacity of 6300, gets 12-14 mpg pulling a travel 
trailer and I can see over the steering wheel - and the hood.

Mary Lou
1991 R22  Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 04:53 PM 7/15/2008, you wrote:
>Brad,
>
>They make a few good things in TN.  My Nissan Xterra was made in Smyrna, TN
>and they even give plant tours on Tue & Thurs:
>http://www.rutherfordchamber.org/cvb/visitors/what-to-see/what-to-see-detail.php?PRKey=12
>
>Great product built very well by folks in "The Heart of Tennessee."
>
>Mike
>s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
>Nissequogue River, NY
>
>
>From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:50 PM
> > It's official!
> >
> > 
> http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2008/jul/15/tfp-volkswagen-special-edition/
> >
> > VW is building their new US plant in Chattanooga.  I haven't bought a new
> > VW
> > in almost 13 years but as soon as they roll out the first Tennessee built
> > diesel I will.  The next time some political A-whole mouths off in Detroit
> > about jobs going overseas, remind them those jobs have been moving out of
> > the Peoples Republic of Michigan for The South for about the last 30
> > years.
> > Toyota just announced that their new plant under construction in
> > Mississippi
> > will switch to building the hybrid Prius.  So, we got Nissan in TN and MS,
> > Hyundai in AL, BMW in SC, Mercedes in AL, Toyota in KY and TX - who'd we
> > miss?  The weather is much nicer here.  Quit whining in Detroit or move
> > south!  On second thought, stay right where you are, thank you very much.
> >
> > Brad
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