Tragic Bronson said:
Most Lexus dealerships are located in bigger metropolitan cities (again demographics). It even took Toyota sometime to get dealers in some rural areas of America, because many of these areas still had prejudicial feelings towards vehicles of foreign makes.
In one word, 'Murica.
True. Unfortunately, many people in the Midwest and rural areas (and a lot of people even in coastal big cities like where I live, who don't keep up with the auto markets like we do), don't seem to understand that the auto business today is global, and there probably is no such thing as a purely American, European, Japanese, or Korean product any more. That is one reason why we have the parts-content lists on the stickers of new vehicles.
I once got into an argument with my own late uncle (who recently passed away) about that very subject. He's a small-town Southern Indiana native (lived there most of his life, except for the military). He panned my brother for buying a new Honda Civic (his second brand-new Honda). He said it was just "Un-American"....a Japanese product. I understand how he felt, from him having served in the Navy during a time it was fighting the Japanese, but come on, the world has moved on since then. I pointed out that my brother had bought the car with my blessing (he had asked me, like he always does, for help and advice on the shopping and deal). I also pointed out to my uncle that, just a relatively few miles away from his house, at Lafayette, Indiana, Subaru and Toyota (and Isuzu, until that company left the American market), jointly run a plant that builds Japanese-designed vehicles,
with, yes, American labor....people from his own state. I told him my own (at the time) Subaru Outback had been built at Lafayette....and what that plant adds to Indidna's economy. Well, that pretty much did the trick.....I never heard him criticize anyone again for buying a non-American nameplate.