Thanks, yeah I think I took you and your dad's picture. None of this is personal.
Well you certainly seem to have a lot of experience with both. I too could care less about the status. Just to explain where I'm coming from...Let's say I am looking for a new car to purchase, and I've narrowed it down to a couple of choices. 2 similiar cars, that have similiar performance etc. When I sit in the car, I feel around in the interior. I squeeze the steering wheel, jiggle the door handle, feel the dash, open everything that opens or is on a hinge. I hate a cheap interior, and if shits made out of cheap plastic that creeks and jiggles and I can see that it's been painted with cheap paint that's already starting to fade, I can't stand that.
That's one of the main reason why I can't stand American cars, and most Japanese cars because they all have terrible interiors. If that's how they make the car in the area that you are always in, the thing that EVERYONE sees, god knows how the shit is that most people are never going to see. Most of the time the exterior plastics are the same way, like the rear of the C6 and the front of the Camaro 5.
I don't have these problems in German and European cars for the most part. On top of that I like the complexity of them, the gadgets and over engineering and all that crap. Some Japanese cars can pull that part of it off pretty good. They are usually more expensive to buy and maintain, but that's because you're getting a lot more I believe, you get what you pay for and if I'm going to drop 20K on a car, I might as well drop 22K and get something worth while.
But that's just me.