Why Toyota Makes the Most Reliable Cars, Japanese vs American Culture

Why Toyota Makes the Most Reliable Cars, Japanese vs American Culture, DIY and car review with Scotty Kilmer. Japanese vs American cars. Are Toyotas reliable? Why Toyota makes the best cars on the market today and what is has to do with Japanese society. Who makes the best cars? The most reliable cars to buy. Car Advice. DIY car repair with Scotty Kilmer, an auto mechanic for the last 50 years.

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[bigtimepimpin]

My mother was all about "buy american" Ford, Pontiac etc. So my earliest childhood memories are of my family stranded on the side of the road asking good samaritans for help.

[eliubfj]

I'm sick and tired of my toyota fj cruiser. The damn thing starts every single time and keeps me out of my mechanics garage.

What the heck am I supposed to do with all my spare money and time!?

[mrcwoodworks]

My Toyota is so reliable that i can never use it as an excuse for calling in 😡

[si-yuandong]

Before invasion of foreign cars, Detroit’s strategy was to design cars that broke down once you complete the loan payment, so people would have to keep buying crappy new cars rolled out from Detroit! Thanks, Toyota, for giving America car industry not only a lesson on quality control, but also “greediness “ control

[ricaard]

My GM retiree father and *all of his GM retiree friends* drive Toyota's and Honda's. Not a single GM car among them.

[johnd]

Scotty needs to go give this speech to the US Chamber of Commerce. All good info and common sense

[CMDRRustyDog]

There are also two words as to why Toyota are the most reliable - Quality Control.
Toyota and BMW built a car together once and some parts BMW sent to Toyota were rejected by Toyota's quality control, so BMW had to improve them.

[youtubefun]

My Toyota Camry is more reliable than my gf. ☹️🥺🥺

[vince_only_way_is_up]

American culture = GREED IS GOOD .. Japan culture = Respect and Continuous Improvement.

[shwolverine]

The main reason for people to sell their Toyota is that they are tired of it😂
Damn thing runs like a clock and work soo good that people just become tired of it

[yohanjananto]

a toyota a day keeps the tow truck away

[DrNemea]

Japanese people take pride in their products. That's the difference

[mikemorales]

IN 1986 I got a Camry, other family got Taurus and Pontiac 6000 and Chevy Corsica and they ridiculed me for spending the same for a smaller, 4 cylinder foreign car. Years later, all those were in the junk yard, while my Camry just kept going.

[DOMINICPAULL]

I've been driving nothing but Toyotas for over 30 years now. My only regret is that I didn't start sooner. I agree with Scotty, Toyotas are simply the best.

[stevenchan]

I work at a Chevy dealership and I recently just bought a 2004 Tacoma 3.4 Double Cab that came in on trade. I absolutely love it. A few months later I met the original owner and I asked him why he decided to get rid of his truck, and replied with “I had it for 15 damn years, it was time for a change” and I thought damn that’s crazy

[ghostriderco]

I drove my RAV4 70, 000 miles in less than a year.!! Not even a single problem with it! I just freaking love it!
Yes they are expensive, but if you a looking for a car that will not give you problems, get a Toyota!

Ps: don’t waste your money in an American car, I learned the hard way. 😩

[keithrobertson]

When it came time to compete, the Japanese car companies called for their engineers, the American car companies called for their lobbyists!

[mossm]

So it’s actually dead simple: Toyota’s run longer because they were actually designed to

[kaneinkansas]

I studied Japanese law of corporations under Japanese Law Scholar, John Owen Haley. Ostensibly both the U.S. & Japan follow the same shareholder primacy rule. That rule says the interest of shareholders comes first. In effect neither follows the shareholder primacy rule. In the U.S. executives have primacy. How do we know? In 1965 executives typically made 35 times the median worker salary, today they make 300 times the median salary. What do executives want? To retire with the biggest estate possible. So their pay packages are designed around quarterly profit, they don’t care about the distant future. In Japan workers have primacy. Why? Because they have tenure (life time employment - this right has been upheld by Japanese courts as a quasi property right.) (They also have company unions: 1 company - 1 union; company unions didn’t work in the U.S. as they were too weak but they do work in Japan because of tenure but if the company fails so does the union) so it is far easier to fire one or a handful of executives than it is to fire enough workers to affect company performance - so workers have primacy in Japan. What do workers want? They want job security - they want their jobs to be there 20 years from now. The only way for a company to ensure long term employment is to pursue long term market share growth. As it happens, stock markets highly value market share, so Japanese workers might be better proxies for shareholders than American executives (especially long term shareholders). In the 1990s, when gas was a buck a gallon and people first started buying supersized SUVs which had huge profit margins, Ford announced that it was not going to concentrate on cars, that it was going to be a Truck company. At the same time ford was abandoning cars, Toyota and Honda were researching and developing hybrid technology. When gas prices peaked in the 2000s, Toyota and Honda were ready with their hybrid technology cars. Then Ford got lucky - it selected an outsider, Alan Mullaley in the mid 2000s. Mullaley immediately mortgaged the company to borrow over $23 billion to remake the company - thus when the Great Recession hit in 2008, Ford had enough cash to not declare bankruptcy and rebuilt Ford’s product portfolio. The rest of the American industry went through bankruptcy. None of Japan did. Back in the 1970 & 80s, American Business pundits and academics said that the Japanese system could never last, but it was the Japanese that have prevailed. From the Japanese perspective, they have to concentrate on long term market share, and they cannot be sure what the market drivers will be 20 years from now - size, or economy - so they hedge their bets by concentrating on both. Now today, gas prices are low and Ford & GM are once again giving up on cars. They are prepared to abandone market share in compacts, and various hybrids because they don’t offer big enough ROI (return on investment). To the foreign car makers this is a stunning concession because, as Scotty says here in regard to pickups, market share is hard to gain and takes painstaking long time to accrue. The Japanese and Germans will be glad to take the market share the Americans are abandoning. Essentially the two countries are operating on two separate paradigms: the U.S. is focused on a strategy to maximize ROI, and the Japanese (and to some extent Korea and Volkswagen) are focused on market share strategy. (Only last year, GM sold its European division outright, a huge segment of market share because it wasn’t making any money and a non-American ownership would have found a way to make it work without giving up so much market share). It is stunning proof that our system of business and our corporate laws are working against our society’s best interest.