My dad was a WWII vet in the South Pacific and swore hed never buy or drive one of them damned Jap cars. He was a Ford man. But even he later admitted that the Japanese were building great cars and that the quality of US cars was poor, mostly to do with the unions.
Same here - my dad had a particular problem with Mitsubishis, his ship having been strafed a few times by some of that company's aircraft.