Author Topic: Want reliability? Buy Japanese. (Read 1332 times)

J_A_B · « **Reply #45 on:** November 12, 2004, 07:05:06 PM »

Wow Gsholz...that car is TINY. I certainly hope it's cheap.

Looks more like a Honda than a Yugo.

J_A_B

john9001 · « **Reply #46 on:** November 12, 2004, 09:49:54 PM »

it's a honda with poojoe badge on it.

Lizking · « **Reply #47 on:** November 12, 2004, 11:57:20 PM »

The steering wheel is on the wrong side too-I bet you can pick that reject up cheap!

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #48 on:** November 13, 2004, 01:14:36 AM »

French cars aren't all bad.

Lizking · « **Reply #49 on:** November 13, 2004, 01:18:55 AM »

Their cars may not be bad, but that driver is pushing it.

Vector · « **Reply #50 on:** November 13, 2004, 07:12:03 AM »

Without reading the text behind the link, I can say that after buying a Japanese car I now know what is reliability. After having several different cars including one Citroen (new), which I fortunetly got rid off after a one year, it's obviously for me that Japanese cars are the ones I'll count on.

Btw there's only two Japanese cars that are being manufactured only in Japan; Honda & Mazda. Knowing Japanese mentality (first work, then family) I'm not so surprised that Japanese cars are so reliable.

My car? Mazda 6 Sportswagon
Absolutely fantastic car.
My first Japanese car, but not the last

-vector

john9001 · « **Reply #51 on:** November 13, 2004, 12:42:05 PM »

in america you can tell where a car was built by the first digit of the VIN number::

J=japan
1=USA
2=canada

there are more , but i don't know them.

moot · « **Reply #52 on:** November 13, 2004, 10:17:49 PM »

Just build it yourself

No loose ends or surprises then.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #53 on:** November 14, 2004, 03:15:58 AM »

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Originally posted by Vector
Btw there's only two Japanese cars that are being manufactured only in Japan; Honda & Mazda. Knowing Japanese mentality (first work, then family) I'm not so surprised that Japanese cars are so reliable.

Honda has plants in the USA.
Subaru builds cars in the US, but some models are still made 100% in Japan.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #54 on:** November 14, 2004, 03:20:53 AM »

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Originally posted by Lizking
Their cars may not be bad, but that driver is pushing it.

He's a Finn, they like gravel.

Here's a German with a tidier line, although I'm not sure he was any quicker.

Vulcan · « **Reply #55 on:** November 14, 2004, 03:39:43 AM »

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Originally posted by john9001
in america you can tell where a car was built by the first digit of the VIN number::

J=japan
1=USA
2=canada

there are more , but i don't know them.

I know the Isuzu I drive is rebadged as a Chevy (Trooper); Vauxhall (Monterey I think); Honda (Horizon); Holden (Monterey); GM; and Opel (Monterey)

I figure if so many companies rebadge it - then it must good!

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #56 on:** November 14, 2004, 08:36:54 AM »

Sure Funked like my beetle
and my passat going already over 260000 km and still going reliable and no rust at all even under the car everything looks young

my beetle drove me all over europe without any problem .

VolksWagen must be crap

at least they got a look

most japanese cars just don´t

I know the toyota is a very good car
but it does just nothin to me the look like ****

can´t help it

same counts for subaru a japanese car wich i would choose because of the boxer and 4 wheel drive

but they just don´t have a look they plain ugly

oh and where is porsche standing

beet1e · « **Reply #57 on:** November 14, 2004, 01:40:11 PM »

I drove a lot of GM crap in the 70s/80s. Got really frustrated by the crap service, and began to think along the lines of BMW/Audi. (VW was too yuppyish back in 86) I found that to get a BMW or Audi loaded with "extras" - items which I regard as part of a basic spec, I was going to have to pay another 25% on top of the base price, which was already quite steep.

So I started looking at Toyota. I never had any rug-rats, so no need for a family car. in 1988 I bought my first Toyota - a Celica - with the 2.0i 16v engine - I think the engine code was 3SGE. Any doubts I had about turning Japanese melted away in the first half hour of driving. The car was a peach, and for the first time I owned a car that I could take to be serviced without a supplementary list of faults or things that "needed doing". (Never had that with GM) I drove the Celica for 53,000 miles and 2 years 11 months, and the trade in value came to 60% of the original price. That's when I bought my muscle car! - the Supra 3.0i turbo, top speed 153mph. I let it rip in France once... Never had as much as a lightbulb go wrong with the Celica, and the only faults with the Supra were covered by the extended warranty which I bought for years 4-6. Those faults were the alarm system (replacement), window motor passenger side, and a thermostat. I kept that car for 6½ years and 84,000 miles, so that's not a bad record. The Toyotas were loaded. The Supra even had ABS, aircon and limited slip diff (much needed!) as standard, as well as leather interior (turbo version).

I didn't like the new Supra (or the price) and needed a fetching/carrying car, so started buying Golfs - now on my third. No real problems with any of them.

cpxxx - which Golf do you have? I like my GTi/TDi but I'm not looking forward to the cambelt replacement, which costs £455 on that model.

Fortunately that's some way off...

Dowding - TVR are British made, but don't they still use Ford engines?

Lucas electrics - crap - old Jaguars used their kit. I prefer Bosch.

BUG! You are incredibly loyal to your Bug.

I enjoyed mine, which I got when it was 29 years old. Fun in a "blast from the past" sort of way, but crap for modern driving.

NUKE · « **Reply #58 on:** November 14, 2004, 01:42:53 PM »

People say Jap cars are more reliable, yet you don't see very many of them on the road that are 20 years old or older.

Most of the old cars you see on the road here are American and they are easy and cheap to keep on the road.

beet1e · « **Reply #59 on:** November 14, 2004, 01:47:14 PM »

forgot to say - very interesting posts from indy0007.