A Sad Day Indeed...

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I don't buy Japanese vehicle for personal reasons, but I certainly don't feel as strongly as our friend SJ. I have been driving a Lexus SC400 these few days, in-laws left it here while they are in Bali for vacation, impressive machine. One thing about these Japanese vehicles is they are reliable, and basically trouble-free, which is more important than everything else. The Landcruiser or whatever the Lexus one is called is big and I read that is quite capable, and Toyotas are often seen used as Technicals in those 4th rated war-torned countires, they gotta to be tough to be used in battles with no service stations within 500 miles. The lines between brand ownerships are so blurred, German and Japanese vehicles are made by Americans, Japanese, German, English or Swede made vehciles are made by American owners. Who gets the profit is hard to say. I have WWII POW friends who absolutely hate the Japanese, but they watch TV and DVD made in Japan, use computers with Japanese parts. I visit Japan often, they just absolutely love Americans and everything about America, to a much lesser degree but same in Germany. It is impossible for me to hate them when they love us so much.
Some people complaint that Japanese don't buy Americans cars, I know many of them love (or crazy about) American cars, but the problem is simply they drive on the wrong side of the road, and we almost never and still do not make right hand drive cars, except a few token models.