8th Sep 2011, 12:15

We're talking about hardware, nuts and bolts? I can most definitely assure you that "Imports" (I assume meaning Toyota and Honda and again - does that mean we can include all those US-branded "Domestic" cars that are imported in the whole "Flimsy" debate?) are NOT flimsy, are NOT inferior, and do NOT have a magical cut-off date where somehow, mysteriously the quality took a nosedive. In my family we personally own 4 post-2000 Toyota and Honda products. ALL of them are just as good, if not better than the previous generations we owned. Two of them now have over 200,000 miles, and these have not given us any issues- just like the ones we owned before.

My Mother's Honda CR-V was rear-ended by a 90's Buick Lesabre. The hood on the Buick was peeled back as a result. Mom's CR-V received a couple of deep scratches and one puncture in the rear plastic bumper cover. That was it. So we can put the "Flimsy" argument to rest, because there is not one once of truth to it.