Every automaker imperfect & all vehicles have glitches & defects, same for Toyota. Toyota uses special assembly process optimizations with ongoing continual improvement & just in time parts that produce exceptionally high repeatable precision that translates into vehicles of enduring quality that are the best vehicles made period! Especially the Toyota's made in Japan^^
Watch this video https://youtu.be/g2k6RT4OJtU <-Click Link) where Scotty Kilmer the expert mechanic explains Toyota Quality
Earning Customer Loyalty with Enduring Quality & Long Useful Life
I am not a fanboy or brand loyal to any company unless they earn it. My 2005 Prius been so reliable & efficient & long lasting & only with basic maintenance. I change the oil & oil filter & engine air filter & spark plugs more often that recommended, including the oil in the PSD & engine coolant. More regular fluid changes enhance the life of the systems, especially the engine. In a way, almost opposite of designed obsolesce focus of other companies who want to sell you things designed to wear out shortly after the warranty expires. People claim that Toyota makes boring vehicles, but the GR Yaris proves otherwise, as does the new Supra.
If boring means bang on reliable for the long run, then I am into boring too! Who wants to waste time fixing problems that the automaker responsible for ? I pick on German automakers because they have the worst habit of using plastic engine parts where plastic should never be used in an engine // electrical glitches & sensor issues & other defects that cause their vehicles to depreciate faster than body weight loss when long term water fasting ;P
Less Error & Glitch = Enduring Reliability
Toyota sells you a vehicle that was designed & made to be exceptionally long lasting, reliable & durable. Sometimes, some models years of Toyota's are not great because of a specific problem, like rusting frame rails of some Tacoma trucks as an example. They have had issues with the footwell rugs interacting with brake & throttle control pedals too. Our 2005 Prius was recalled 6 times but no out of pocket expenses for the needed repairs meant an excellent customer experience that will cause me & my wife Meg to only buy vehicles made by Toyota in Japan.
Japanese Culture Exceptionalism & Obsession Focused
Japan a small island nation with a very conservative culture that tends to favor exceptional quality focus in sword making & woodworking & printing & vehicle manufacturing, especially at Toyota & its lucky suppliers like Denso. I was so impressed by the quality of my 1995 Toyota Celica that I ended up traveling to Tokyo & Toyota City in 2010 to see how they do it, one of the coolest experiences of my life was visiting Japan! Reverence & humility & politeness abound with the Japanese public who are clean & respectful & kind & humble & friendly! I was astonished at how I was treated as an American by Japanese people of all ages & backgrounds that I encounter while extensively traveling around Japan for 10 days. I really want to go back to Japan to Osaka & Kyoto next time!
Not Everything in Japan Perfect
Tradition & quality focus make some Japanese products truly exceptional. I do not appreciate their smoking tobacco culture or vending machines that slang nearly anything, but their seafood based food culture both extremely tasty & health, abounding with mono-unsaturated healthy fats & Omega 3 // They have an extreme culture that favors exceptionalism & obsession with detail & quality focus of whatever is being done or made, from sushi to samurai swords to woodworking excellence without nails or screws or any metal other than the precision chisels & cutters used to shape the wood & cool joining techniques that produce wood building that last many hundreds of years as they breathe, shrinking when drying out & swelling when wet, in a harmony & perfection with similar expansion rates in all the connections, something nearly impossible with metal hardware in wood structures. Women could be treated with more respect than is typical in Japan. Children could be treated with more moderation & respect too, something missing from Japanese culture due to traditional cultural focus to the past & how things have been done at a high level for centuries.
Pleasing Ownership Experience = Less Time Wasted
Reliability makes owning a Toyota more pleasing or less annoying as it wastes less of your finite time alive dealing with repairs emblematic of higher mileage German vehicles like BMW or Mercedes where plastic engines parts & glitchy electrical systems plague modern German cars with glitches & errors & defects that are expensive to fix or repair, making older German cars depreciate super rapidly while Toyota & Lexus models have some of the lowest depreciation rates of any vehicles sold worldwide.
UK & German Automakers Suck at Real Quality
When a car breaks down a lot, think Landrover & most vehicles from the UK or Germany, it requires the owner to waste time fixing or taking the vehicle to a mechanic repeatedly to fix errors & glitches the manufacturer guilty of including in the poorly designed or poor quality & poor assembly QAQC - they would do well to copy the Japanese automakers methods for reducing glitch & defects /// ultimately if they did it would be experienced as a compliment as copying master works in Japan considered a compliment to the person who created the original. Like saying, I made the best one & my peers liked it so much they copied me, echoing appreciation for the excellence of the better one // longer lasting or more reliable or more durable or stronger // real quality you can find in most Toyota & Lexus vehicles that also hold their value well & depreciate slower as a result of the long lasting quality // meaning you can get a reliable used Toyota or Lexus as a steeply discounted price vs new, similar to when my wife & I purchased a 2010 Prius with 114,000 miles that still works great & probably will for another 15 years & hundreds of thousands of more miles hopefully!
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