I remember when the steelworks car parks around Sheffield filled up with foreign cars.........
I remember when a schoolmate's dad bought a Toyota in about 1968, the one with the reverse slant front and twin headlights, and I think it had a FOUR SPEED FAN!
They rotted as fast as the Fords and BL stuff, but they were tricked up with gadgets.
Yup, "all fur coat and no knickers" as they used to say in Rose Lane in Norwich

Apart from the Datsun SSS which were released in South Africa when we were living out there in the early 70's and they went like off a shovel I have not been attracted to any of their products, I would make an exception if someone gifted me a Mitsubishi Zero, they looked good and performed well as the Americans found out.