Oh, boy, so do I. I grit my teeth and scowl every time I get in my 4Runner because I can't experience the pure joy of American-built cars. My Toyota purrs like a kitten, all the fittings and finish are in place and have never rattled/fallen off/come unglued and it's quiet as a church on Saturday night.
It makes me year for the days when I had American cars that resembled Pinewood Derby racers with their dodgy construction and death-by-a-thousand-cuts little failures.
Of course, I'm probably just falling prey to those nasty capitalists who produce a quality product at an acceptable price. Just gullible, I guess.
year = yearn
My own personal dead horse in that respect is best illuminated by my Jeep.
A part fails on it. I go to the dealership and get a new one, as it is not available elsewhere. The new part fails in six months. Put another new part on, same thing happens. Replace entire subassembly in case it's the problem - same part breaks again six months later.
It doesn't matter what the actual part was, as almost all of them had the same pattern.
Contrast that with my now twenty year old Jaguar, which actually does have some aftermarket support, and if I do have to resort to a stealership, the part usually actually lasts at least as long as the original one did!
Glad your experience as been positive.
Having owned 12 American cars, one of them currently being a Cadillac, I share in my joy of twisting the key each day.
What I hate about Japanese cars is the design. I have owned a Nissan truck once. Once. It couldn't pull my boat without suffering. Had a Toyota truck for a while too. Buyers remorse on that one - never felt safe in the way-too-thin doors, thinner sheet metal. Interior spaces in each seemed cramped. I look at the Honda Ridgeline and think: Truck? Naw... Unibody right? A trunk in the bed of it? Sounds like it needs to come standard in pink and have a pop-up make-up mirror on the dash.
One of my passions is muscle cars and I hurt from laughter at the giant wings, fart pipe, manhole cover sized brakes, stickers, and puny output of these things. Making a lot of HP at redline is OK. Making tons of torque down low and having neck-snapping response is even better.
I hate Japanese cars not out of a protectionist mindset, or any sort of bigotry. I hate Japanese cars because I think they are crap.