I suspect none of those wonderful vehicles that the "intelligent consumers" love so much would fair any better, and most likely would have never have survived doing what Rinodart's truck has done for him. When you load up work trucks and make them work, they need repairs.

Its easy to talk crap if all you do is commute to a job someplace 30 miles from home on decent roads, and then go back home. Hook it up to a 6,000lbs trailer with two 5,000lbs cars on it, haul cars like them across the country several times for a few years, then report back how your wonderful Toyota has done.

I know a few people that own those so called wonderful cars, they are not trouble free. The difference is the dealers treat the new car buyers very well when the break down (which is just as often as any other car). The poor guy that buts them 2nd hand sure pays the bills, but they don't seem to complain like the owners of the American made cars do.