This is my rebuttal against the stealth naysayers cough, cough, RSLH700, cough, cough!

Since 1942, there has been lots of anti-japanese sentiment in the products they make. Take a gentleman named Iwasaki Yataro. He started a little shipping firm in the 1870s in Japan. This company began to diversify-shipbuilding, eletronics, and in 1934, heavy equipment. By this time, the company built up so much power, that many of the top executives were in the Japanese Cabinet!

This company took a design from a racer Howard Hughes built (HK-1 Racer--anybody remember the silver plane in Aviator that ran out of gas?), but instead in rendering it in aluminum like the HK-1, this machine was made of bamboo and rice paper! Another engineering marvel was its 13-cylinder radial engine, which was believed to never be feasible to run. This little plane that outran and outmanuvered everything (well, until the P-40 and the Hellcats came along later in the war) was named Zero-Sen, or the year of it's inception 5700 (for us anglo folks that would be 1940).

Now, after the war, thanks to sanctions placed againt its government by other countries, Japan was limited in what it could produce, so many of these companies were limited into what it produced. Datsun tried selling cars in 1959, but thanks to a war fresh in people's minds, the company didn't really take off unitil Mr. K and his Fairlady Z took the automotive world by storm eleven years later.

Now back to the Zero. If you didn't figure it out, the industrial conglomerate that crafted that machine was our "beloved" Mitsubishi. They got planes together pretty well, but it has taken them until 1980 to get a selling automobile over here. Intresting fact: Last year was Mitsu's 25 year campaign...Do the math with this one, folks- our Sapporo and Challengers were introduced as Plymouths and Dodges one year before Mitsus were sold as Mitsus!

Now, Mitsu is going strong as ever...I can't remember when they were acquired by the DCX monster, but off the top of my head, I want to say mid-eighties, and only the automotive division, I could be wrong...DCX has let mitsu run fairly autonomously, as Benz did with Frieghtliner since 1981...

Thanks to the Fast and Furious tuner car revolution, the brand loyalty with the Diamond star is strong. The competition is running scared with the EVO VIII, a master's thesis of a work in progress since the eighties. That car is a balanced package, and can whip a Lambo's ass for a basement-bargain price...And I have seen it done, and the Lambo driver knew what he was doing!

Alright, enough historical babble...I got on a tangent and started straying. So Mitsu has the engineering capability. Mitsu is kinda part Dodge. Now, take a 1991 Camaro. Does it have intelligent 4 wheel steering? Nope. All wheel drive? Those cars like it in the rear, pun intended! Adjustable height suspension at the touch of a button? Not exactly. Take even the RS or the SS, and those monsters don't come close! Don't get me started a 1991 Mustang, with it's Fox-Bodied goodness that graced those cars from 1979 up until last year when they changed the body style...Ford is pretty good about taking an idea and holding it for years...(Quick side note resto-rod idea: Take a big late seventies Lincoln TC, throw on some huge wires-24" Daytons-, and take the modern 4.6, suspension and All Wheel Discs off a wrecked Mercury, TC or Crown Vic-it will all bolt in-can you say PIMP MOBILE!!!). The Town Car, Crown Vic, and Gran Marquis/Murader all share the same platform and have since the Fox-body days of the late seventies...I am not even sure that a '91 V6 'Stang even has rear discs!

Now, take that FauxPar that I am championing here...It basically has the Camaro and Mustang beat on the playing field, save for one thing-The hearts of the American Public. I could go on a speal about our pony cars (did anyone notice that the Stealth was going for the same market our beloved Challenger was g