Have you considered buying a foreign car? If you are typical of millions of Americans, you have probably thought about it. And you are probably trying to decide whether it would be a wise choice.
At present about 10 percent of all the new cars sold are imported. Not very long ago, it was generally believed that imported cars would never go over 5 percent of the total sales.
What has caused this spectacular jump in sales? Is it a fad? Are the people who own imported cars happy with them?
The imported economy car attracts a larger percentage of professional and highly trained people than domestic cars, but this may be due more to an interest in unusual engineering design than to snobbishness or any status-making reason.
This is a portion of the article that appeared in the August 1959 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine.
