Originally posted by Slow-N-Low
You mean snob-appeal. "Look at me, I'm elite!" But Japanese cars are ubiquitous, so you really aren't elite.
I'll take it whenever I can. ;-) I like my Japanese cars Japanese. And they had better damn well have sat on a boat for a couple weeks.
Anyway, it's just luck of the draw I suppose. My Accord just happened to be built in Japan, and if Honda decided to build the RSX at East Liberty, I'd still have purchased it.