BTW just to clarify the no eastern cars remark...I'm fully aware that Toyota and Honda etc. make top notch quality etc. and if I ever bought a _new_ car I might get something like a Nissan Pathfinder or whatever; if I'd need a car to cross the Sahara I'd get a Land Cruiser, etc...but, I buy my cars 5-6 years old and driven much, and the fact just seems to be I can't find any eastern car I'd like in that age/mileage group. They literally don't smell right to me, and just generally don't have an air and appeal to me at all.

One thing for instance I must have is quite blonde an interior, and clear, spacious lines, and by and large eastern cars are all black inside, and strangely cramped around the driver too. Furthermore, eastern makers tend to put out clearly different models within 5-6 years, so the cars that old look clearly dated already to me, whereas with many european makes it takes a professional to even be able to tell the difference in loks of cars 6 years apart in model years. It's just a matter of personal likes and dislikes, not meaning to say I think they suck or anything like that, quite the contrary.