I would like to buy an American car again, but they may have lost my business forever. I owned a Pontiac Grand Am in the mid 90's, and a Chrysler Sebring convertible in the early 2000's. Both had many maintenance problems, especially the Chrysler. I was fixing that car almost every 6 months.
Now I own a Mitsubishi, which isn't even known as one of the better foreign brands, and I've only ever had one problem. The car is 7 years old and it's had one maintenance issue; amazing!
The US automakers have screwed over their customers for far too long. They could have built better cars, they could have offered better warranties, they could have fixed problems, but they chose not to. They chose to screw their American customers and now we're supposed to feel guilty for not buying their pieces of crap after years of financial abuse??? I don't think so.