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Yeah, well, I'm a small car kinda guy, and my first car was a Chevy Vega. Anybody old enough to remember them? Suffice it to say, I've been going Japanese ever since.
I do live in the Bay Area, and Accords and Hondas are common as heck, and the only time you see a lot of large American passenger cars in one place (SUVs are different) is at senior citizen's centers and churches. We've got nearly 170K on a 12 year-old-Acura that's chugging along just fine and drives great, and a 13-year-old Civic that may well have another 10 years in it.
Yes, I buy on reputation. Honda had a good rep for quality and reliability. I originally bought on that basis, and the reputation was justified, so there I stayed. It takes a while to build a rep, or live down a bad one. If American cars suddenly equalled the Japanese today, it'd probably take five years for the sales to reflect it. It takes a while to live down a bad rep.
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