What a bizarre sentiment. If you can barely afford it you should care more. Get a reliable make and model that there are a lot of so the parts are cheap. Also, I’m not a Boomer and I remember Yugos.
The actual topic is reliability. Country-of-origin is a consideration in reliability. You can't just exclude the context of the original post.
You're trying to argue that "Boomers", which I took in good faith that you were not using as an epithet, are the only ones who would consider country-of-origin. That's, simply put, wrong.
