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Good observation,

But I want to add that Toyota can mean a dozen real manufacturers under a single brand.

Even in Japanese domestic market, there are "Junk" Toyotas, and Good Toyotas. There are good domestic market Toyotas made by external contractors, and there are bad Toyotas made by Toyota's own factories.

There are export grade Toyotas, made with export grade parts, and there are domestic market Toyotas with significantly different in design, and parts despite being sold under same model name.

And outside of Japan, there are many, many dozens of contract assembly plants ran by completely random people, assembling cars from very wide variety of parts, and doing many design, and spec changes.

By the way, what's the tool is there to detect cold welds in wiring?




An educator who manages a community college auto training program told me the most reliable car is the Toyota Yaris. It looks cheap, is cheap but because it's built to similar standards and has fewer parts it just doesn't break much.




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