Hate for Sushi chod.

[nisfan]

Ive noticed over the years quite a few people hate japanese cars, Ie jap crap, jap scrap, i personally like them and i admit a lot of them like to rot like buggery but its getting on my tits how you post a picture (not this forum) and you get all these remarks. Mostly the older/ giffer generation. Is it borne from being more reliable than other cars (may not be true) or there styling? I suppose im just as bad as i cant stand new kias, hyundais etc.

[Lord Sterling]

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People have thier own opinions and they are entitled to them. So what if someone makes comments about not liking certain cars?

 

I like Rovers, I know a few on here and elsewhere who don't and always say they don't, doesn't bother me personally. As long as they have tried one and not followed the herd.

 

There is no "catch all" reason as to why people "hate" (which a too strong a word, I'd say dislike) certain cars. Open your mind to reasons and see what people say. Most people, for example, dislike Rovers because of "wat dey herd" or that thier mums/brothers/dogs bollox had one and it broke down all the time etc.... but there are people who have genuinely owned them and dislike them due to a variety reasons from styling, discomfort to mechanical failures and so on.

[saucedoctor]

People my age (I'm 41) will remember the first Japanese cars that sold in any real numbers over here in the UK. Let's face it, they rusted like fuck, and were decidedly weird looking.

 

My grandfather never actually retired. When he was pensioned off @ 65 from Belfast City Corporation, he immediately got a job selling Hondas, and had two himself, a red one and a silver one (like the Civic Trigger owns).

 

The red one, although brand new was a diabolical bundle of shit, and Honda gave him a silver one which was OK. It seems that in those days, if you bought a Jap car of any make it was either brilliant or dreadful. The dealership expanded into selling Datsuns (120Y generation model range) and they seemed to have the same superb/crap problems.

 

Still, my old granddad shifted a fuckton of motors, mainly to older people.

 

I've heard it said that older people in the 70's/early 80's wouldn't buy Japanese because of the war. Indeed, my Grandad himself had been in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, "The Skins", and they'd pasted the Japs round Burma. Didn't stop many of the same generation buying a Japanese car.

[garbaldy]

I know exactly what your on about and can safely say I love my jap crap.

[nisfan]

Didnt want to mention the war! I had a rover '93 214 as my second car, it was a bucket of shit BUT im still happy to see early 200/400s going about and dont regard them all as shit. Im happy see to any old crap on the roads, I suppose i like the odd look of the earlier jap stuff.

[Junkman]

ORL VORXLZ IZ SHIT M8!!!!

[nisfan]

2 write M9! ol dutsanz r cockpiss.

[jonny69]

Same with French cars. We've had one 90's one and one 00's one and I don't think there is anything that stands out and makes it worse than any other blandobox on the market. Would getting a Golf really solve everything I hate about this Peugeot? Would it? No, no it wouldn't.

[holbeck]

When I was working for Mitsubishi in the 90's, a distant relative who had suffered at the hands of the Japanese in WW2 was disgusted that I was working for 'the enemy'.

 

He must of mellowed with age, as the last car he had was a proton, (I didn't have the heart to tell him). 

[Bobthebeard]

Are any cars made since the 90's really simply Japanese or French or (cough) British or whatever? They may be assembled in a particular country but the parts are/were sourced worldwide.

[holbeck]

Are any cars made since the 90's really simply Japanese or French or (cough) British or whatever? They may be assembled in a particular country but the parts are/were sourced worldwide.

 

So true. I was amused to see that production of the Mini has started at the former DAF cars factory in the Netherlands.

[nigel bickle]

Try Italian.

 

You've not seen rust till you've looked at an early 70's Fiat/Lancia/Alfa.!

[Rusty_Rocket]

I run two 90s Vauxhalls and like the negativity they attract- it keeps the ignorant away from them and therefore prices low 

[Lacquer Peel]

Vauxhall is one of the default choices of cars for people ignorant about cars.

[Junkman]

When I was working for Mitsubishi in the 90's, a distant relative who had suffered at the hands of the Japanese in WW2 was disgusted that I was working for 'the enemy'.

 

He must of mellowed with age, as the last car he had was a proton, (I didn't have the heart to tell him). 

 

I'm not entirely sure whether I understand the connotation between a Proton and cars from a country Britain fought during WWII, but do you realise,

that in case it was a J-reg, your civil duty would have been to save it?

[alf892]

Anything other than Vauxhall is the choice of ignorant people.

EFF

[Sloth in a bowl]

I'm not entirely sure whether I understand the connotation between a Proton and cars from a country Britain fought during WWII, but do you realise,

that in case it was a J-reg, your civil duty would have been to save it?

I may be wrong but I think a large portion of proton production is/was hacked about mitsubshi cast offs.

[Junkman]

I may be wrong but I think a large portion of proton production is/was hacked about mitsubshi cast offs.

 

But wasn't it gleefully built in Malaysia?

[saucedoctor]

The Malayans had to get smacked as well, 1948-60.

[Junkman]

If we continue this, there won't be a single car left, that an Englishman could buy.

[Bobthebeard]

If we continue this, there won't be a single car left, that an Englishman could buy.

If you mean a car made totally in England/UK there is little chance.

[trigger]

I enjoy listening to the older generation talk about Japanese cars, you always get mixed responses, either "I had one of those, I went to buy a Mini but the Civic was so much better to drive" to the mechanic a few days back who loudly stated "those Hondas are shit and single handedly caused the death of the British motor industry". It couldn't have been that shit then if it could do that and it couldn't been that shit if it's still on the road 40 years later

[Bobthebeard]

^^ +1.

The thing that single handedly caused the death of the British motor industry was..... The British motor industry.

[chaseracer]

If you mean a car made totally in England/UK there is little chance.

Not even Morgan, if the sources of the crates I noticed during the factory tour are representative.

 

We know that the engines are German/American/whatever, but the axles are from Asia somewhere and the wire wheels come from India...

[Junkman]

If you mean a car made totally in England/UK there is little chance.

Yeah, or made in a country they never were at war with.

 

Anyway, back to J-tin. I'd really love to have a Century adorning the driveway of my semi - and not quite fitting it.

I always loved the Kajira, and all this bizarrely styled stuff from the 60s-70s-80s, as my collection of 1/24 scale J-plastic attests.

I love air filter casings painted baby blue and all the other daft stuff they did.

Then there is this wonderful colour coded velourstasticness.

Unfortunately, they stopped making cars after 1986, like the rest of the world.

 

[holbeck]

One of the beauties of autoshite is that nowhere / no manufacturer is off limits. If it's interesting, unfashionable and quirky, then let me in.

[DVee8]

I have driven jap for 20+ years.Started with a Toyota Camry followed later by a bluebird turbo my mates were buying xr3i,rs turbo's and such i wanted something different.

then primera's and x-trails.A couple of civics and i will keep on buying jap.

[Bobthebeard]

One of the beauties of autoshite is that nowhere / no manufacturer is off limits. If it's interesting, unfashionable and quirky, then let me in.

Another one of the beauties of Autoshite is that nothing is off limits IMHO.

Well reasoned and intelligently discussed no matter what the topic. A nice place.

[fordperv]

I run two 90s Vauxhalls and like the negativity they attract- it keeps the ignorant away from them and therefore prices low

I wish this was the case with ford's, i get peed off with every other thing for a Sierra being listed on ebay as cosworth, also osf tax pees me off

[EssDeeWon]

I thought it was just because Jap ryhmes with crap? We all know they are mostly decent cars so I wouldnt worry about it...

 

Abit like the Allegro being dubbed the all-agro, it just ryhmes but they are GR12* cars in reality.

 

*GR12 does not refer to the overall reliabity of the fore mentioned motor vehicle.