Originally Posted by
robertj298
My question exactly. You can get a Japanese car with equal performance,10 times more reliable and more economical to buy and maintain.
But very little, to no, snob value.
And it's not just cars and bicycles. If anything, in motorcycles the difference is ever more extreme. It wasn't until the early '00's you could buy a Ducati that you didn't have to be able to work on yourself just to keep it running.
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