In a message dated 7/23/05 7:10:20 AM, Trvlr2001@AOL.COM writes:

<< (Japanese cars were NEVER  junk) >>

I guess you don't remember the Subaru 360.  Subaru got their tit in a wringer
whenever they bribed a PA senator in order to have him sponsor a revision to
the motor vehicle code which would allow their substandard brakes to pass
state scrutiny.  Then there was the car which left a taste in my mouth worse than
Phels Naptha -- the 1977 Honda Accord.  How shiny, what tight, even door gaps,
how complete and what a total piece of sheet.  In 23 Kmi it went through 3
head gaskets and, under all those finely fitted panels, it was rusting apart in
a very structural way.  And, I even parked the pig in the winter!

The only good thing that came of it was that I traded it on a Volvo and the
salesman thought he was taking ME for a ride.  I can just imagine him at happy
hour telling his car salesmen buddies about the schlemiel who traded him a low
example of the mileage  hottest selling car in the DC metropolitan area for
an orange 242.  I can also imagine the buyer of that Japanese jewel stalking
through the dealership with a baseball bat in hand.

George