Originally Posted by CyberSEO

It depends... Which exactly cars do you mean? Russian trucks like Kamaz are not bad at all: Dakar Rally - Wikipedia - as you can see, they are winning almost all rallies for many years. I don't see any American trucks in the list of winners. Do you?

Maybe you mean Lada X-Ray and Lada Vesta (you can click the links to see which exactly cars I'm talking about)? These are almost the same shit like your Fords. Maybe yours of the same class are a bit better, but not significantly.

The problem is that they (the new Ladas) are very overpriced. I may buy such a car for $800 USD or so, but not for $12K USD as they being sold in auto salons. Only an idiot will buy it for such an unreal price. So personally I'm absolutely ok with Nissan right now.