Those 3 do not belong on ANY ‘worst’ lists.

Here is why Torch is correct:

Listen to Torch. Your first car will get destroyed. By you. By your friends. By some tweaker smashing windows and swiping subwoofers in the campus parking lot. I recommend a manual Civic, Carolla, or Focus. Something cheap, with readily available parts, and an active mod/DIY community.

Whatever car you get, you will…

Words cannot adequately describe my lust for the EVO wagon...

You say that now, until I catch you furiously voting CP when Graverobber posts a brown V90 wagon with an LS-1 swap.

Don’t forget about the third pedal

Well for the most part Toyota, Nissan and Honda sell the US customers what they like to buy. They even make them here to get over that bias of being foreign. Although my father who lives down the road from a Honda plant in Ohio still won’t even consider them.

You’re way discounting American nationalism at home - you’re seeing quite the resurgence in 2016. And nobody cares if you go out and buy American.

I think you nailed iit. Honda, Toyota, etc. aren’t trying to sell kei cars to the west, they sell things we want to us.

I see a lot of German luxury cars and TONS of Apple products in Japan. The Japanese do buy foreign products, but only if they are equal or better than the local equivalent.

I would actually say that there is a way that US automakers could penetrate the Japanese market... and it’s the same way the Japanese automakers really, deeply have embedded themselves into the US market. Mind you, it would’ve only barely begun by the time Trump’s out of office (even if he’s in office for eight…

Totally beat me to it. I could have shipped my F150 when I moved to Japan, I didn’t. Why? Because what the hell do you do with a 19 foot long half ton on these skinny road, my GT-R feels wide as hell on a lot of them....not being able to park...well anywhere...is just the icing on the cake.

I cannot fault the Japanese for not buying US cars. They are often too big, especially pickups or SUVS or the quality is just not up to Japanese standards. I would take a Japanese made car over a US-made car any day. The exception might be Cadillac, but then again why not buy a Lexus. But then again I think the same…

Some lucky lad (or lass) imported one, and it was at a car show/swap meet I was at last year. I fell in love:

Both a Figaro and a Pao, but not my favorite Pike Factory car — the Be-1?!

Dude, just look at it.

i think most of us like kei cars because they’re like puppies. we love them because they’re cute, and trying to do something that shouldn’t be possible in that form factor.

Funny that us CT folks have the same opinion of you Massholes. I dread my once weekly drive to Foxboro for those exact reasons.

Poorly maintained example, exceedingly cheap in Japan, add reasonable shipping costs, age makes it legal...

As reparations for your faux pas, I will require.... $4,200... *cough, shifty eyes*