when your talking about "domestic" cars are you talking about chev, ford, dodge

or japanese designed cars built in US factories???

because in Australia your typical toyota, honda mazda are extremely well built robust cars that will give many years of trouble free motoring.

however we also have the dubious privilege of having available cars like the dodge neon and caliber, now those ARE pieces of shit, who designed and built that trash.

so if im trading my 10 year old europesan car on a new dodge caliber i would say i,m an idiot.

but if it were for a new japanese built mazda 6, now there is a great looking great handling well built quality car.

but again we import these cars from japan. and i dont know what quality they represent when buitl in the USA