Peaches and Dulcinea: window shopping fever.

Quick, what do guys look for in a drill?

It has to be made in the USA, it has to have a nice box.
Battery powered, a plus (around the house)
They say that drills used to be better.
Their collection will look nicer, but they really wanted a (whatever)

Depressing window shopping. The ads make you drool, the comments make you sick.

Smaller more utilitarian drills that just *drill* are maybe better?
Why use "Cordless" anyway?
The maintenance man had one, a small one.
I offered to let him use my corded behemoth by relative size, but the guy liked his cordless.

Now if I could only remember the brand.
It was tasked with screwing drywall screws into drywall, and had slight difficulty with plywood.

Impulse-buying most cordless drills is difficult because there are no accessories at all (like batteries)

Is 20V overkill, is 14v OK?

Why should it even be a drill (a hammer-drill, an impact drill, a drill-drill??)

Guys got mad when their hammer drill got stuck on "Hammer"

I know jack about drills, I studied up for hours on drilling-technology just to get one, and the best thing about it was, it's low speed, high torque. Gear reduction, 1/2-inch.

(mmm, yeah, OK, Now what??)

I don't think my brain could handle minutia on a different tool.
Then I'd read it was imported, used, it wouldn't force a bolt through two 2x8's, etc.

Speaking of "Imported", are there any consistently US made drills?
Or was that long ago.
A low-key drill, one that wouldn't get stolen or swapped out by some admiring workman (the one in my head)
eg, your friend's brother who wants to borrow it for the weekend to... well anyway he wants to borrow it.

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So this entry won't be a total loss, I will edit in the most popular power tool available, assuming someone somewhere keeps statistics.

Assuming whoever wrote that isn't a freebie shill looking for more freebies.

The reality seems to be that with DeWalt, people get disappointed for one reason or another.

The "buyer Beware" guy was mad the drill was made in Mexico and China, and it did not smell right
(but it worked)

Milwaukee is a fondly remembered name from long ago, and (I've read) isn't the same anymore.
That leaves "Makita" but they look strange to me. IDK.

I personally like "Porter Cable."
They look OK, they work nice, but online they seem like someone's ugly sister.
If there's a porter-cable equivalent of whatever, I look for it.

I want to add "Flex"-brand, once you see beyond your country-centric Xenophobic ideas of where drills are really made, being all disappointed-on Amazon you didn't get a company box containing a USA drill.
My questions stand, who sells a drill that is most likely made in USA (and if there is one, does it have an unnecessary premium?)

Let us also consider that drills are really expensive generally; I wouldn't know if Tariffs are a factor or not, but it's something to consider (besides "stimulating the economy,") buying a drill now (that you might not need now) will maybe keep you from paying way more later, at someone's whim.

Would you pay extra for a German guy to assemble it?
It makes me wonder if/when Japan and China will move some factories to Berlin or Belgium...
Anyway, here. I'm two seconds away from buying it, seriously, if there was any way in hell that I could see myself using it more than once.