Their workers are OVERPAID. That's the whole reason they can't compete with the Japanese.
Name one other place where someone with a 10th grade education can go make $30 an hour to work on an assembly line!
Dumdum: Yes they do. Come over to Michigan (where I live) and I would be happy to show...
I owned a 1994 Honda Civic CX - the bare bones model. By far the best car that I've ever owned.
Even still, you have to face reality and concede that you still own a 14 year old car. My guess is that it could be a bad cylinoid (pardon the spelling). They tend to crap about around the 10+ year...
Because he's the newest uber-freak.
Since he's such a freak, the media is sensationalized with him. The media always has to follow the latest whack-job because they know the story sells.