[SoCal Pubbie]

"And most of the Asian car companies actually have their design studios here in the States."

Not precisely true. Their advanced design studios are mostly in California, such as Calty, etc. They do produce many of the company's designs, but the main design studios are in Japan. I am an industrial designer and while I don't design cars I know a bit about who's working where.

[Spktyr]

I type corrected, then.