Someone once described Japanese cars as appliances...meant to get the job done and be disposed of when you're done with them. I think that's a pretty fair assessment.

Every Japanese car I've seen with anywhere over 50K miles or so (except a friend's mom's Lexus LS400) had a pretty unhappy looking interior, regardless of how carefully the owner maintained the car. True, many high-mile Japanese cars are capable of getting someone from Point A to Point B, but that's about all they can do...no delivering anyone in any semblance of comfort (I'm 6'0" and have yet to find a Japanese car that I can truly fit into comfortably for even a short period of time) or anything like that.

I also have personal issues with our trade relationship with the Japanese; it's wayyyyyyy too one-sided IMHO.

For those reasons, there's no way anyone could get me to buy a Japanese car...I'll stick with American or European.