Yeah but wait, i'm not taking the thing as seen from a car guy, i'm taking the thing as seen from a whatever person who NEEDS a car.
Who needs a car cares about car's price, its spare parts prices, the space inside the car(so if it is useful or not), how much it drinks etc, euro cars are way more expensive than jap cars in japan(and you cant say the same for japanese cars in europe, jap cars are cheapers - comparing them to an european model of equal characteristics - than european ones), same goes for spare parts.
Then as a car guy i might even say that i like them more because i dont see them often, but what i said above is still valid.