why everybody's always bothered with resale value? you see, five years into the car's life, japanese or american, both of them won't be sold for more than 50% of the price as new. ok, toyotas will get 10% more on resale compared to american car of the same grade but no one seems to think that toyotas are also more expensive to purchase by more than 10% over the american car's price. so what do u gain there? nothing more than what's right!