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Originally Posted by Thunderball

Absolutely. The car show was a pretty eye-opening experience to me. Unless one is spending over $40k on something actually built and designed in Europe or Japan, every car is the same cheap feeling, rattle prone, plastic laden, assembled in Canada junk. Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM... pick your poison, they're all pretty much the same now.

That isn't to say foreign cars are significantly less error-prone, but the difference in pride/craftsmanship is palpable.

And yet places like CR and The Truth About Cars still gush about how Japanese cars rock.