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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
Those people in the Toyota dealership were typical import snobs. They probably ready about GM in some Japanese owned product review magazine and never even looked at a GM car. They base their whole opinion of something on nonsense.
Plus, a lot of them rationalize in their minds that the import cars are better built because they just got ripped off and need to justify to themselves why they spent thousands more on a car that's no better than any other.
Granted, that Cimmaron they showed was indeed a junky cheap looking car with a chintzy interior, but that cheap look was NORMAL back in those days. Japanese cars from that time really didn't have much nicer interior styling.
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There are always those that will insist that Japaneese are better and worth the extra money. A friend of mine has been talking for 6 months to me about my HHR, he made me believe he was going to get one but at the last minute ended up getting a Toyota Rav 4 and paid about $3,000 more and gets worse gas mileage. go figure. By the way 3 years ago he bought a Toyota Tundra to pull his camper... well he ended up buying a Silverado 2500 with the desiel engine because the Toyota was only getting about 9 mpg pulling the camper and had a hard time doing it. Even when he does not pull the camper 18 MPG was the best it would do. he kept the Toyota because he likes it better....
I remember one dealer was buying up Cavaliers and changing them to look like Cimmarons and selling them so they could make more money. but the only thing they changed were the grills and taillights, and replaced the emblems.
I owed an 85 Cavalier and laughed when a Cimmaron pulled up next to me knowing they paid half again as much for the same car with leather seats and a V6 engine.