[mustardjohn]

I have a friend who has made a good living for many years. He owns and operates a foreign car repair shop. He always has a house full of toyotas and nissans. Front lot and side lot are always full too. He doesn't do door seals and minor rattles. He is not the only foreign car shop in our small town either.

I have kind of lost the point of this thread. Where did we start?

Most cars have come a long way in the last 40 years. How about the first Datsuns (for those too young that is a Nissan now). Compare a Pinto to a Focus. We are getting better product now, foreign or domestic, than we ever have and that's the good news.