the pickups not too bad.. i could deal with it.. the others though.. yea.. i hear ya.. i have a buddy who is a VW guy, and the new trend is to have tires that are too small for the rim, so they stretch out the sidewall, that and they put on directional tires on the wrong way.
and the reason its looked down upon when the Japenese import world gets it (IMO) is because they want to keep themselves different from us.