Maybe you have a point there danhock, however the majority of these performance jap car DO depreciate very fast, much quicker than a lot of vws.
You get what you pay for in this world, you can get a new impreza, for example, relatively cheap for the performance it produces. Ask yourself, why so cheap? answer - because it won't last.
If you like jap cars so much then why don't you go and buy one.