Camry is most American car–surprise!

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Small, anectdotal evidence of German fit/finish. My old roommate had a Jetta she bought new. We were roommates for over 5 years. The car didn’t break down – but pieces would randomly fall off. The trim pieces on the outside would fall off – sometimes causing a hazard as they could get wrapped up in the wheels/axles etc. Not fun on roadtrips. It didn’t break down.. just had pieces fall of bit by bit.

My honda civic was as peppy as her jetta… but that might have had more to do with my honda being a stick, vs her automatic.

[an]

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Carsdirect…But frankly, I’m not looking at the options that closely, since I would never buy either cars mentioned…i just like wasting bandwidth shooting the breeze while I wait for my damn build to finish….Not really a big fan of toyota…actually, I really don’t like them….Nissan/Honda would be more my cup of tea. I just have too many tools/time invested in my Krautmobiles to ever switch over[/quote]
Was never a fan of Toyota either, except for the Supra. My family does own 2 Camry but they’re both based I4, so it was a great deal at the time and runs great for 10-11 years so far. I’d much prefer Nissan/Honda as well, since they make cars I want to buy. VW is too expensive for what you get I think. But I guess that applies to all German. You do get the prestige though. Japanese brands still can’t carry the same weight.

[an]

[quote=flu]
Carsdirect…But frankly, I’m not looking at the options that closely, since I would never buy either cars mentioned…i just like wasting bandwidth shooting the breeze while I wait for my damn build to finish….Not really a big fan of toyota…actually, I really don’t like them….Nissan/Honda would be more my cup of tea. I just have too many tools/time invested in my Krautmobiles to ever switch over[/quote]
Was never a fan of Toyota either, except for the Supra. My family does own 2 Camry but they’re both based I4, so it was a great deal at the time and runs great for 10-11 years so far. I’d much prefer Nissan/Honda as well, since they make cars I want to buy. VW is too expensive for what you get I think. But I guess that applies to all German. You do get the prestige though. Japanese brands still can’t carry the same weight.

[an]

[quote=flu]
Carsdirect…But frankly, I’m not looking at the options that closely, since I would never buy either cars mentioned…i just like wasting bandwidth shooting the breeze while I wait for my damn build to finish….Not really a big fan of toyota…actually, I really don’t like them….Nissan/Honda would be more my cup of tea. I just have too many tools/time invested in my Krautmobiles to ever switch over[/quote]
Was never a fan of Toyota either, except for the Supra. My family does own 2 Camry but they’re both based I4, so it was a great deal at the time and runs great for 10-11 years so far. I’d much prefer Nissan/Honda as well, since they make cars I want to buy. VW is too expensive for what you get I think. But I guess that applies to all German. You do get the prestige though. Japanese brands still can’t carry the same weight.

[an]

[quote=flu]
Carsdirect…But frankly, I’m not looking at the options that closely, since I would never buy either cars mentioned…i just like wasting bandwidth shooting the breeze while I wait for my damn build to finish….Not really a big fan of toyota…actually, I really don’t like them….Nissan/Honda would be more my cup of tea. I just have too many tools/time invested in my Krautmobiles to ever switch over[/quote]
Was never a fan of Toyota either, except for the Supra. My family does own 2 Camry but they’re both based I4, so it was a great deal at the time and runs great for 10-11 years so far. I’d much prefer Nissan/Honda as well, since they make cars I want to buy. VW is too expensive for what you get I think. But I guess that applies to all German. You do get the prestige though. Japanese brands still can’t carry the same weight.

[an]

[quote=flu]
Carsdirect…But frankly, I’m not looking at the options that closely, since I would never buy either cars mentioned…i just like wasting bandwidth shooting the breeze while I wait for my damn build to finish….Not really a big fan of toyota…actually, I really don’t like them….Nissan/Honda would be more my cup of tea. I just have too many tools/time invested in my Krautmobiles to ever switch over[/quote]
Was never a fan of Toyota either, except for the Supra. My family does own 2 Camry but they’re both based I4, so it was a great deal at the time and runs great for 10-11 years so far. I’d much prefer Nissan/Honda as well, since they make cars I want to buy. VW is too expensive for what you get I think. But I guess that applies to all German. You do get the prestige though. Japanese brands still can’t carry the same weight.

[svelte]

This flies in the face of the fact that, after the tsnami, Camrys were one of the cars in short supply due to a lack of parts from Japan. Many other car manufacturers were able to keep their production lines open.

I will also wager a fair sum of money that they did not look at ALL cars, because there is no way in hell you’re going tell me they looked at the Corvette and then didn’t include it in the top 10 for US content. Absolutely no way.

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