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I agree that there's not a stigma for driving a foreign car around Detroit anymore.

Interestingly, my father worked for Chrysler outside of Detroit from the late 1950s into the 1970s.

And oddly enough, he drove a VW Beetle in the 1960s. As you can imagine, when things were good, he was just viewed as the eccentric guy who drove a puny foreign car (why would anybody in their right mind do that?).

In the 1970s (and 1980s) doing something similar was probably a moderately dangerous move.

I've been back many times during my life and in the 1990s and onward, I see plenty of foreign cars.