The playing field is leveling just in time for Detroit's automakers.
In an Associated Press-Gfk poll likely to spur heated debate, more Americans say they now believe the cars and trucks coming from the likes of General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC deliver better quality than their Asian rivals -- an encouraging turnaround that probably says as much about the stumbles of recall-plagued Toyota Motor Corp. as it does the long-time-coming resurgence of Detroit.
The poll of 1,002 adults, conducted in early March by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media amid widening troubles for Toyota, found that 38 percent of those polled rated American metal the best, and 33 percent favored Asian products. In a December 2006 poll conducted by AP-AOL, 46 percent of Americans dubbed Asian vehicles the best, compared to 29 percent who went America First.
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