General tires.
I used to associate them with being the super cheap skins that you buy for your chevy celebrity to get by one more year.
The last couple sets of Exclaims I've bought were really a damn good tire, besides being at the bottom half of the price scale.
Hyundai
What I have seen, Kia. 
Fuel injection. Used to be a nightmare to work on and very unreliable. Now it's the bees knees.
sachilles wrote: Hyundai
+1, almost overnight it seems...
General Motors appliance cars.
Handling for a cars with a stick axle. 
The amount of features that come standard in appliance cars, or any car for that matter.
Cadillac
Small block Chevy Swaps into foreign cars
Megasquirt.
with a nod to ebonyandivory: my marriage.
China
Music (from the standpoint that everything from 1992 has been downhill, but now there is some good stuff if you know where to look)
Public Radio (but that's probably because I'm old)
internet speeds
Katy Perry (because she's single now)
Dashboard, cv joints (could be just my experience), OBDII connectivity tool, GPS, and tint.
EFI.
New Fords.
Any kind of computer upgrades. (Who remembers playing the DIP switch/IRQ shuffle, and trying to manually force drivers to work with all manner of arcane settings?)
belteshazzar wrote: General tires. I used to associate them with being the super cheap skins that you buy for your chevy celebrity to get by one more year. The last couple sets of Exclaims I've bought were really a damn good tire, besides being at the bottom half of the price scale.
I'm on the third set of General Grabber UHP for SWMBO's Highlander. Excellent light truck/SUV tire with no drawbacks, and cheap.
I already had the Michelins in the cart at Tire Rack when I started doing the research. Better tire for at least a third less.
curtis73 wrote: Public Radio (but that's probably because I'm old)
Terrestrial Radio? Heresy! Anyone with a cell phone and data plan surely has Pandora by now. Right?
Pandora? Nosir.
Parents, your own specifically. I thought mine sucked pretty hard, now that I have kids I realize they were pretty good.
Domestic beer.
Cheap-ish motorcycle helmets (anything not made by Shoei or Arai).
Cheap-ish performance tires like Kumho, Hancook and the like.
The rust resistance of newer cars.
Paddle shift transmissions
Digital dashboards
Domestic diesels
Woody wrote: Domestic beer.
I'll give a hearty "berkeley yeah" to that.
Knurled wrote: Any kind of computer upgrades. (Who remembers playing the DIP switch/IRQ shuffle, and trying to manually force drivers to work with all manner of arcane settings?)
A-men.
Onions. Hated them when younger. Love em now.
Cable TV shows.
/Flamesuit on
Some of the newer Chrysler products. Had a 2005 Magnum RT. Pretty good car. Next got a 2011 Ram 1500. Great truck. Now I have a 2012 Wrangler Sport. Pentastar and 6 speed. New interior. I'm impressed. I never thought I'd like a Chrysler product enough to own one haha. They are definitely improving over time.
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