If there were no japanese car companies, how boring would the auto industry have been?

Question by planet yahoo answers: If there were no japanese car companies, how boring would the auto industry have been?
if there were no japanese car companies like toyota, honda, nissan, subaru, lexus, infiniti, acura, mazda, etc etc would cars really have been as advanced and sophisticated today?

For example in 1970s when these japanese companies barely existed, brands like chevy vega and ford pinto were considered super hot. The arrival of japanese car companies in America pressured and

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