exactly, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a viehicle which was designed, had its parts manufactured and final assembly all done in the country which the manufacturer's headwuarters are located.
Take an Acura, they are a product of the Honda Motor co. which is based in Japan. But the some of the Acura model line up available for sale in the US is assembled in the US, as well as some Honda models.
I'm sure a host of other companies do the same, they are based in one country, but have facilities in foreign countries, as well as sub-contract other areas of the manufacturing.
Chrysler has some of its car engines built by Mitsubishi. A few of the compact cars marketed by Chevrolet are built by Suszuki, the Duramax diesel engine in the Chevy trucks are built by Isuzu, the Toyota Matrix and the Pontiac Vibe are essentially the same thing. And so on.
the automotive, heck, the manufaturing industry is very incestuous.
With that, you have to ask yourself, is there really such a thing as an import?
The Hot Import Nights, I like to think of it as a display show for modern viehicles with both asthetic and performance modifications. If you like them, fine, if not, thats fine too, its all about opinion and perception. Something you think is atrocious someone else will think is beautiful. In fact, I'm happy to see them allowing both foreign and domestic viehicles to enter the show. Its more of a comming together of viehicle owners that share a common intrest.
