The bias against U.S. automakers is deserved.  The U.S. automakers pushed an inferior product on the consumer for decades.  The causes are manifold as being the low cost producer took emphasis over quality and real innovation.  Sadly, the Japanese auto industry, which decimated the U.S. auto industry starting in the 1970s took its guidance on quality from the same companies. Too bad the managers and engineers didn’t heed their own standards and methodologies.