I'm glad it aint just me who gets really pissed off when jap stuff gets slagged off for no reason other than it's Japanese. If it's a crap car, and I mean a really crap 'how did that get past approval' type crap, then yeah, go ahead, say what you want, I'll join in- but to completely write a car off simply because of it's country of origin really gets on my tits.
When you ask these myopic cretins where they are coming from, it usually stems from the fact that they had a Micra hire car once in 1992, therefore a 50 grand Skyline R34 GTR must be a piece of shit too, with no soul, Dixons stereo quality plastics and will only last 3 miles before it goes pop. That's like saying that a Lotus Esprit V8TT is an awful car because I once drove a Morris Marina.
Also, if it isn't the cars that get a slating, then the drivers get a fecking hammering too, labled as chavs with bassball caps and sub whoofers (is that a dead dog?) from Metallica's touring rig in the boot, who drive like total morons- ever seen a bloody Audi being driven ffs!!!!!
I don't know about you lot, but I use another motoring forum, as most topics on this site just go over my head- this is currently running on another site:
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?t=197632&f=23&h=0
Now I can fully appreciate that not everyone likes the jap stuff- no issue with me if it isn't your cup of tea, but this post:
really pissed me off.