Mathew, that's pretty interpretive about the rebellion "buy rice". I have noticed the trend as well in a lot of fad arenas. It's sad that nothing is clear in this day and age and our own young citizens feel their very country is the enemy. I live in SF CA where right is judged wrong and wrong, right. It's disturbing how many people here feel the need to make it known their dislike of the US, confusing it's present policies with our founding ones. But you don't see them leaving for those "greener pastures" or doing anything possitive to make things here better. They will preach all day about the US being a bully super power, but they are the first ones cutting you off in traffic, cell phone in hand shrugging a cold shoulder at the Vet who fought for their right to be such a mules rear. It's never "what have you done for someone else", but rather "what has someone else done for me".

Yikes, gotten off the subject a bit. What if we started a campaign in the music, movie, etc industies to make the hotrod, muscle car, customs the coolest thing to hit this century. A new resurgance of American pride in automobiles. Pros and cons? Prices would skyrocket, but demand for parts would increase, increasing the kinds of parts you could get (aftermarket). Then if everybody was eggin' you on at the light in their old iron the complaint would be "every Joe and his sister thinks he's Richard Petty cause he's got a classic hotrod, muscle car he bought yesterday.........I been buildin mine fer 50+ years"

Is it the people who drive the tuners we dislike, the cars, the trend, or what the cars or the people who drive them represent?

This subject has really got me hooked cause it isn't just about the cars but a cultural landslide. Could it be the advent of foriegn cars is a precursor to the crumbling of our history as a country? (just being a little loose with exagerations of horror there, not meant to spark anger)