It’s finally okay for us to start buying Japanese cars too!
Or at least that’s what German Green Party whip Renate Künast seems to think. With calls for “Buy hybrid cars from Toyota!” and other provocative German-car-industry-bashing and name-calling name calls, Künast is hurting her fellow Germans’ German car loving feelings right and left. Or maybe she isn’t, hard to say for sure.
Personally, I’ve always felt that Germans secretly want to own Japanese cars (you rarely see one here, you know), it’s just that their families would disown them and the neighbors wouldn’t understand. Not that they do now, the neighbors, but still.
So, who knows? Maybe this offensive Green offensive might be the final straw to finally break the back of German Japanese car resistance and mobilize the already highly mobile German population to finally get out there and buy some Made in Japan already.
Or maybe it might just get the German car industry to finally budge just this little itsy bitty bit and start making more environmentally friendly automobiles. Nah.
„Wenn die Deutschen zu blöd sind, moderne Autos zu bauen, muss man den Leuten empfehlen, Toyota Prius zu kaufen.“
Observing Hermann 
If buying small fuel-efficient Japanese cars is back in vogue, why is it then that I’ve seen more Hummers and Porsche Cayettes on Hamburg streets in the past couple of years than ever before?
The Germans will never buy anything other than German, of course, which is fine with me. What cracks me up is this preaching to the rest of the world about environmental friendliness while producing Europe’s biggest/dirtiest cars. Germans build race cars. Great ones even. If they ever decide to build “green” cars, which they won’t, they would build those great too.
Well, the Toyotas probably don’t fall apart as quickly as Volkswagens (worthless piles of crap), but other than that…