[angelmav]

Well I am not really sure where the argument is, seems to me that american cars have made up the difference in recent years but the perception is our cars are somehow inferior which does mean lower resale/trade in value. The fact that most US car buyers are unaware that the quality is not necessarily better buying japanese and that by doing so they are aiding to the mass exodus of our dollars to foreign countries, deteriorating our production base and in effect reducing the upper middle class in america. Seems to me when our economic bubble finally bursts that will be a steep price to pay for better resale value on all that imported junk.