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[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it's hard to escape that opinion in my own mind.

I try to avoid sweeping generalisations like "american cars are shit" but it just seems to be born out so repetitively that it seems like a truism.

Jeep used to have a certain design aesthetic for their short wheel base models which has been great for decades. But reliability has never matched it and they haven't been able to transfer it to their other models like the cherokee.

In the Australian offroad scene you never see anything american. The guys building the most capable machines are starting with toyotas and nissans.