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Ahh but that be a Yaris 5 door! Which, if the xA gets replaced, should be here soon I would guess.

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This is a worthless list. You know it is when most of the top 20 cars aren't in (or near) the top 20 in sales.

Are you sure the site's name isn't importgrabber?

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I really, really want a Yaris 5-door. COME ON TOYOTA.

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Hey #2,

Theres a rumor that The 'Big 3' are losing Big ground to the imports. Maybe there's a connection there somewhere?

Must be the "liberal media" poisoning our minds again!

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i wouldnt hold your breath on the Yaris 5-door...
though, i wouldnt mid taking a look at it...

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there are only 3 respectable cars on that list.

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whats with the lack of american cars?

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Yeah, their arn't any american cars on the list cause Americans cant compete in the small car class. Who would honestly choose a Cobolt or a focus over a corolla or civic?

Face it - American brand cars have fallen out of favor with the masses.

Now if Ford would just bring it's euro line of cars to the U.S.....

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"This is a worthless list. You know it is when most of the top 20 cars aren't in (or near) the top 20 in sales."

Eh, Camry, Accord, Civic and Corolla ARE top sellers. Leave domestic biases at the door before posting.

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Top sellers who begin to be more and more common, I wonder where the border line of being "too common" is? One day, sooner or later, we could imagine the following: a guy who buyed Honda for a bunch of years and decided to switch elsehwere because everyone got an Honda and wants to be different. Or trying to put more accessories like a vinyl roof for example(there was some local coachbuilder who put vinyl roof for Camrys but I lost the adress unfortunately -_-;) to be more different then the rest of the pack. (I don't think a decorative continental wheel at the rear of a Civic might work tough)

Then, some complained of cars in the late 1950s of being "overchromed" but we're now to the other extreme, "over-blandness" dictated by various factors we faced over the years, looks like the middle-ground is hard to find.

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"Leave domestic biases at the door before posting."

Yeah, and bring in Japanese biases, instead *Sarcasm*

I own a Mazda3 GT and I love Japanese cars but I'm a car lover at the end of the day and I appreciate good cars from all countries. More American cars deserve to be on the list. Heck, even more diverse Japanese cars (Suby, Mazda, Nissan) deserve to be on the list.

Toyota/Honda...sheesh...is American taste plain vanilla or what?

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#9 Sid, you hit the nail on something, it's like "Toyonda" begin to dictate their oligarchy or oligopoly and let small pieces of breeds to the "smaller guys" (Nissan, Mazda, Subaru, Suzuki, Mitsubishi). I know I should stop imagining weird conspiration theories.

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"Deserve" has nothing to do with it. This is a list of vehicles most researched on a particular website by CONSUMERS. So if CONSUMERS are most interested in these top 20 vehicles, how can you argue against that? It's not about domestic or import. It's not an opinion piece.

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Steve, by 'deserve' I meant that other manufacturers (domestic, import et all) have a lot of great product as well. And that American consumers should, or atleast, could give them a test-drive/look/internet lookup. Now, if this is what people want, more power to them. But it does make for one heck of a boring market-place. Read a single issue of Top Gear and marvel at the diverse European car-market.

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Believe it or not, there is a large percentage of Americans that don't use the internet (or use it much) that also buy cars. I'm willing to bet this same large percentage of Americans also favor American cars which may explain why not many American cars show up on the list.

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I don't believe it's so much that Americans who don't use the internet prefer American cars, or any other conclusion like that.

This is one particular website. A bad one, at that -- I've never liked PriceGrabber for anything. I'll say people with American bias are more likely to hit up AutoTrader.

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When the worst thing you can say about a car is that it's "too common" it's probably time to buy one if you like the way it fits you and the way it drives.

Back in 1955 when the all-new Chevy was redesigned, there were new Chevys everywhere within a few months--so common that there was nothing exclusive about them. But they were GOOD CARS for their time and being common didn't matter.

Those of us who own Hondas and Toyotas don't give a crap who thinks our cars are common because we know they're good, and so do those people who pay top dollar for used ones.

We buy Accords, Civics, Camrys, and Corollas because they're good, not because they're exclusive.

If you want to be exclusive, join a private club and eat lunch with the like-minded. Don't expect any car to give you a unique personal image. It won't.

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iQuack, at the time when Chevy leased the new 1955, there was more variations of the same model, 2-door sedan, 2-door hardtop coupe (4-door hardtop sedan came to Chevy in 1956), 2-door wagons, 4-door wagons, 4-door sedan and convertible with a wider array of colors choices. The Camry and the Accord have less color choices and less body style variations (I'm sure some wish to see an Accord hardtop coupe or even an hardtop sedan and a convertible) and less body changes over the years.

As Richard M. Langworth, auto historian for the car magazine Collectible Automobile mentionned in the August 2006 issue of this mag mentionned in a article about the cars of 1956 "...At that era, the model change was a veritable watershed, akin to the World Series in the lives of of car-crazed kids, not to mention their parents....As the day approached, dealers would drive them in the showrooms, taping brown paper over the windows against the public's anxious eye. Then in happy frenzy on the official announcement date, whole families would hie to their favorite emporium to ogle what God hat wrought..." (I hope Richard M. Langworth isn't angry then I exterpted this text from his article ^_^;;). He also mentionned then Brooks Stevens described this portentous celebration as "dynamic obsolescence" but I guess if Brooks Stevens was still alive today (he passed away in 1995), he might write then Honda and Toyota should add more "pizzaz" and more style as well as more "soul" and complaining about the ultra-blandless vanilla style and he would said "...you do lots of profits, your cars are good BUT give us more style, more body choices and soul in your cars..."

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Well all that being said, it's amazing how no wants to report on how the new Hyundai Sonata has beat out the Honda Accord and that Toyota now feels that they are its biggest threat being that they have taken out Honda already.

As far as American cars are concerned, Most that I like are made by GM. Now, I dont think they make bad cars but when a car manufacturer gets that label of making bad cars from its past, its hard to remove that label later on, i.e. Hyundai. No to mention how most peopld who say a car is a piece of crap, actually haven't owned the car but is going by hear say. I urge anyone to please test drive ya own car choice and stop going by what other people say. Just because someone had a horrible experience with a car doesnt mean you will. You take care of ya car and it will do the same for you. AMERICAN or FOREIGN!

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KEW - Where are you getting your information:

"Hyundai beat Honda..." NO, Dont get me wrong. I respect how far Hyundai has came, but they are not Honda's. The last test done with the Accord, Camry and Sonata: the Sonata was #3 behind the "Camcord".

I see that you are like Hyundai (me too for that fact), but get your facts straight.

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