Seems the Japs beat out the modern, faggoty, American Auto industry

I've tried to drive primarily American cars over the years, simply because they used to provide a lot of employment in the US, but for at least a decade now, more money from the sale of a Toyota stays in the US than does any other car manufacturer including Ford, Chevy, and Chrysler.

Toyota has been very kickass for a very long time, we always had a land cruiser and a corona in the driveway when i was a kid, dad was a fitter and just fixed the damn things himself. The engines on the Coronas went for years after the body had rusted out of the cars and his FJ40 he sold for almost the same amount of money, that he had bought it new 30 years earlier (original 40's in top condition are worth a small fortune)

I ended up being a Holden guy so ive ended up owning a run of those for the last 20 years lol and you kind of get used to a certain kind of performance with them, sadly theyve all been autos but have real actual gearboxes in them, but since dad died the old lady has always had manual corollas which up until maybe 5 years ago were always solid and you could thrash the shit out of them. The one shes got now is one of them newer ones with a fuckin CVT in it which is dangerous as shit as if you try to get away in too much of a hurry the fucker just revs out and goes nowhere and everything in it is dodgy and plastic as fuck.

Then i started having to rent cars when i didnt have one myself and found myself in Kia Ceratos... if i got told to go buy a fleet of cars at the moment id be looking at those.