Really, lay off the caps, that was so annoying to read.
1. I drive a good ways to work everyday and I see a lot of every kind of car on the side of the road. I don't generalize that Toyota makes shitty cars becuase I saw two of them on the side of the road. Who knows how well these people are taking care of their cars? All I know is that none of the domestic cars I, or my family have ever owned have left us stranded on the side of the road.
2. The SRT-4 is not a Neon and is not the same platform. It doesn't even have the same frame. The front seats are the sames ones you'll find in the Viper. The engine and transmission are different. All it shares are the looks.
3. So, you're saying that getting big power from small engines is good engineering? You also say it is about time that Dodge did it. Well, they have been doing that since before Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan, and Mazda. They were turbocharging engines in the very early 80s turning all sorts of their econo cars into rockets. They helped start the sport compact era.
4. Let me explain something to you. You can't have both. You can't have a car that will handle well on the track and be able to lay down fast times on the 1/4 strip. They are different suspension setups. I can make an old car like that do pretty damn good on the track. Take out the high sidewall tires, swap out the suspension, stiffen up the body and frame, install an LSD, and hell even go as far as mounting the engine in the rear. If you did that to a Plymouth Superbird, well I would say it would do amazingly well on the track. Also, I don't see what the point of this is, it has nothing to do with reliability. On a side note, I don't like superchargers. If I had a V8 and went forced induction I would go with a turbo.
5. I am by no means a Ford fan but since you used them as an example so will I. The GT-40 dominated GT racing stomping all over cars like Ferrari. Ford is also doing pretty well in WRC with their Focus platform. Dodge dominted LeMans in 98 and 99 with the Viper GTS-R beating out the Prototype class. There are plenty of examples were American cars have outperfromed. Also, when I buy I generator or a lawnmower I don't give a shit that Ford doesn't make one. Craftsman makes pretty damn good ones. I am not a brand biased sheep like you seem to be.
6. You aren't seeing the point here as far as car values go. Resell is decided by things like how many of the cars were produced, how many were sold, and there are a lot of other factors and 99.8% of the time reliability isn't one of them. A good example is Lotus. They make great cars yet the resell is so low, why? Explain that one to me. They don't have reliability issues. They make some of the best handling cars on the market. They are also dead sexy. It is because they aren't Ferrari or some other high marked brand. It is because of stupidity.
7. As for the Cav, I couldn't care less. It isn't a car I would buy, you simply used it as an example. As for the Skyline, they do use them as taxis in Japan granted they aren't R34s they are base model sedans but they still are Skylines. My point was that the Skyline is based off an economy car.