This blog post is a spin off of my buddy wellfedmonkey's blog on the "XBOX360".

I just got my Dodge Caravan maintenanced at its 30,000 Mile mark. Apparently this is a milestone maintenance marker where a good deal of parts are to be replaced. The total cost of the servicing was 600 dollars and we were told the van would need an additional 1,400 to 1,700 dollars worth of parts replacements. I almost had a coronary after we were told this because the bluebook value of this 30,000 mile 2001 Dodge Caravan in EXCELLENT CONDITION is worth A STINKING 5,000 dollars!!! This isn't much of a shock to me because we had a Chevy Malibu that was totaled and we got less then 1/3 of its bluebook value when we got it 2 years prior. We had to get our Camry maintained so today we had to pay only 70 bucks! While my wife was at the Dodge dealership a DODGE sales person told my wife the bottom line and whispered "Japanese cars are better." Afterward my wife returned to the Toyota dealership and we found out that the comparable Toyota van's major maintenance point was 130,000 miles and the most it would cost is less then 300 dollars.

My point is why SHOULD I buy American if another nations product is simply better in every aspect?!