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Originally Posted by krayzie
That's right it's no longer the 90's. I think Made in Japan quality overall has actually gotten worse these days in general.
For the longest time it was pretty common knowledge that for the same product Made in Japan, they keep a higher QC (let's say @ 98%) for domestic consumption since their own population has a low tolerance for defects. While the ones made that resulted in slightly lower quality (let's say @ 95%) will be destined for export, since they know it'll still be made better than competing foreign made products.
After the 2008 crash and during that Toyota unintended acceleration debacle, I think the word got out that the Japanese factories started hiring young part time workers to fill the line that could care less about craftsmanship which irked alot of the older workers whose primary focus was on quality.
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I do not believe that there would have been two standards at any point in time. A 3% difference in quality would be within spec anyway. It may have seemed there was a difference since North American cars take way more abuse than in Japan so issues stand out more but to intentionally make them inferior would just not happen. It would take some pretty solid and repeatable evidence to convince me they built to two different standards. "Common knowledge" is frequently not common nor knowledge.