Red Light Drama - Has something like this happened to you lately?

VCuomo

You younger guys probably don't get it, but there are a LOT of people around who's views towards Japanese products are influenced by WWII - either their own experience or their parents'. It's real, and there are hard feelings about it across the US. You should hear some of the comments that I've gotten from fellow Corvette owners... Sheesh...

juan05

what did the corvette owner say? if u dont mind me asking.

VCuomo

It was multiple owners, and they were criticizing me for not buying American.

Things like "Why didn't you buy a Corvette or Camaro instead?", "The Japanese people thank you for your support", "You're un-American.", "People like you are responsible for the American auto industry going broke.", ... You get the idea.

I thought the "Why didn't you buy a Camaro?" one was funny, since I'm pretty sure that the new Camaro was designed in Australia and is being built in Canada.

Even more interesting is that all of my previous cars, except for 1, were American (I even owned an American Motors Rambler back in the day)! I bought a 1987 Pontiac Trans Am during the first time that GM was trying to convince people that they made cars just as good as the Japanese - man, what a piece of crap that Trans Am was!

Robert_Nash

and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if their other car was a Porsche, Lexus, BMW, MB or Acura.

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VCuomo

And it would surprise me even less that their restored and/or restomodded Corvettes are full of parts made in China, Taiwan, Mexico, ...

ZKindaGuy

I was turned away from a number of "Any make and model" car shows when I showed up with my previous 350Z.

xiven

i'd say thats racist in the car world

AJChubbs

This is an interesting point. A few years back I went to Hawaii with my grandparents, my grandfather who fought in the Pacific asked an odd question to me while we were there of all the Japanese people there. And for those of you who don't know there are a LOT of Japanese vacationers on the islands. Anyhow he asks "Do you think they wonder if this could be theirs?" To which I said "They're probably looking for their next Mi-Thai." It's definitely a generational thing.

I've read through most of these and I look at where posters are from and I have to ask do you all live out in like the ex-urban, rural hinterland? I live inside the beltway here in DC and can't tell you the amount of nice foreign cars there are floating around. If something like this happened my head would actually explode. While I love our Z's they're nowhere near the nicest foreign cars anywhere around me.

This is a window into the microcosm of nativist America. As a plain white guy myself it's so disappointing.

m4a1mustang

Same here, man. There's a huge mix of folks out here.

I know a couple people out in Haymarket and those folks really can't stand being anywhere near the more urban areas. Too many foreigners!

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