> There were other indications that Toyota was on top of things.
I've said for a long time (really) that:
a) Japanese and particularly Toyota vehicle quality (overall production,
engineering, design, etc) peaked around 1990; the decontenting got
pretty aggressive by the middle of the decade.
b) Even at that, the only vehicle I'd ever buy in its first year of
production would be a Japanese-built Toyota.
The last Japanese car we owned was a '92 Infiniti Q45 (the best of cars
and the worst of cars) and prior to that an '88 Celica (at 120K mi
something - a window switch - finally broke.)
Recent Japanese-brand product trends toward ergonomically intolerable
(nipple-high Toyota beltlines), godawful ugly (can anyone look at a
current Mazda3 without a little bile brewing up in the throat?) or both
though I have to admit the last-gen Mitsu Evo (not the current
oversized, pagoda-shaped thing) is a remarkably attractive and
well-tailored shape - if you ditch all the spoilers and vortex
generators and other crap.
Excuse me, I have to go take my bitchy-pill now.
John.
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