I’m on the Honda/Acura/Toyota/Lexus bandwagon too. Those brands have built up a lot of good will in my family, whereas GM and Ford shattered trust very quickly.
My parents had a Ford minivan, which was terrible and only lasted about a year with our family. They traded to a Chevy Suburban, which had an electrical fire at 70,000 miles while on a family vacation. That immediately allowed Ford a 2nd chance with a new Expediton. That lasted about 2 years, when GM was given a second chance with a new Tahoe. 38,000 miles later that POS was gone and my parents, me, and my 3 siblings have bought nothing both the mentioned Japanese brands for the last 10 years. Third chances are for dummies.
We’re all really happy, and wealthier for buying cars that don’t need anything but oil changes, tires, and gasoline.
Tired of your phony anti-american anecdotes!
I’ve tried to use Jap junk trucks in business, and they last about 1/3 as long as Ford Rangers. The farthest any jap truck went was 80,000 before major repairs were required, while the Rangers have all been still going at over 300,000 when we got tired of looking at them.
You just can’t run Jap rigs off the pavement; they aren’t engineered for the drive train stress. Broken axles, snapped U-joints, crushed drive pinion bearings, and exhaust systems that get ripped off by brush.
“My parents had a Ford minivan,..........”
Yes, my mother and father in law were in the “Buy American!” crowd for the 25 years I’ve known them (until very recently when they bought a Toyota). Truth be told they were actually in the “Don’t Buy Japanese!!!” crowd as they were perfectly happy to purchase hideously expensive agricultural implements that were all foreign (but not Japanese) made. When I pointed this discrepancy out they were mightily PO’d at me, but their displeasure did not extend to forbidding their daughter from sharing the bed with me. There are some here that would. ;-)