Ok, maybe I should put a little more intelligience into my post than what I've seen here. Every company makes shitty bottom of the line cars, including Chevy, Ford, Dodge, Nissan, Toyota, Honda, etc, so I see no reason in comparing only those cars (Civic would fit in that category, so would Cavalier, no offense to anyone). Let's reiterate another fact: rice is not the car, it is what the owner DOES to the car, including gay parkbench spoilers, stickers, bodykits, and oh, those stupid oversized "bumblebee" mufflers. Anything can become rice, including domestics, it's just that more Japanese cars are owned by ricers.Now, for those of you who diss Acura, apparently you haven't heard of the Acura NSX, which is just a badass car, among the top three best looking cars in my opinion. Toyota of course made the Supra which can easily be modified for 1000hp. Then there is Mitsubishi who made the 3000GT (n/a and vr-4 models). I myself (not bragging) drive a 3000GT and I think it is probably the best looking car ever, and gives me no problems. The Vr-4 is the twin turbo model (I have n/a unfortunately though) and it, along with Nissan's Skyline GT-R, was an engineering marvel of the time, with awd and aws and active aerodynamics and suspension (show me that on domestics). Enough talk about perfomance though. The Japanese (with limited natural resources) are **** smart and design some of the best cars. If nothing else, they have created the best-looking cars ever and know how they should look. Other greats include the 300zx, RX-7, and maybe the new S2000.
I can't figure out why everybody is against imports and I think it is pure ignorance (nothing to do with our economy and supporting US). The fact is that most people don't know much about good import cars (like mentioned above) and therefore favor shifts to domestics out of ignorance. I am NOT saying anything is wrong with domestics, just saying Japanese cars get a bad rep. Let me tell you something though, the only cars I can't stand are the British and German cars- to me they just look gay, including BMW, VW, and whatever else there is, and most people get them just to say they have them (status symbols). Italian cars are great though.
Also, I don't want any arguing, but don't you all think that the auto industry has gone to hell in the past 5 years? You know all those great Japanese cars like the 3000GT have been discontinued and so has the American Camaro and *****-Am (my favorite domestic). The new cars all look so **** stupid, I can't see myself buying one. I mean, look what Chevy did, what the hell kind of ugly thing is that SSR truck?!? And yes, most Japanese cars these days DO **** in the looks category. They are now primarily plastic and ugly. Same for domestics. I hate them all now for the most part. The only good looking Jap car I can think of now is the NSX, and for domestics it's the vette. And do you know why the industry stopped making nice cars and started making this crap?!? It's because the idiots in our society are actually buying it, and ofcourse they will sell what they can. Just voicing my opinion on the matter, please no flaming.