why US car so bad compare to Japanese car?

Answer 1

like most things manufactured in America they have unions that make it impossible to fire employees, so they don't have pride in their work, or jobs. Yet they want to complain when they layoff people and ship jobs overseas.

Answer 2

With all due respect to the Toyota salesman, here are some interesting facts...

JD Powers released their initial quality survey over the summer. Who was on top? GM.

The largest recall in automotive history was recently announced. Who was the automaker? Ford? GM? No. It was Toyota.

Despite a radically changing market in the US, who still sells more vehicles than any other manufacturer? GM.

Who offers the best warranty of any full line manufacturer? GM.

Lots of people talk about Japanese quality, and I'll admit they seem pretty reliable. But they are not trouble free. I have a GM store and we work on Japanese cars every day. I have to fight the laugh when one of my customers complains about their piece of junk Suburu or Nissan.

The simple fact of the matter is there is virtually no difference in reliability between Japanese manufacturers and Domestics any more. Maybe that is because so many are built in the US now, maybe not.

Answer 3

I am a Toyota salesman so I know alot about the subject. The main difference is the manufacturing process. When a US or japanese manufacturer builds a car they try to produce them for as little cost and sell them for as much as possible. Say an american company is trying to cut costs on their door panels. The US company goes the their supplier and usually will use cheaper materials and mass produce the panel to get the best price. What happens is the quality goes down in order for the cost to be effective. Take the same problem with toyota. instead of cutting corners, and mass producing, they will send a consultant to the supplier to help them run their business more efficiently. Thus producing a higher quality part at a lower cost. The US companys are run with union labor that demand contracts for all parts sales. So irregardless of the demand for the part they get a contract for say 100,000 units per year. The Japanese only purchase the right amount for the demand of their customers. The US companies spend so much money on mass producing their cars that at the end of the year there is a huge surplus sitting around at all the dealerships. To get rid of the surplus they have to offer huge incentives such as rebates and special financing rates. What these rebates do is Kill the resale value of the vehicles. the more rebates there are on a car the faster it will depreciate. If a customer comes in and pays 30,000 for a vehicle and pays sticker price in may, then another customer comes in in November and buys the exact same vehicle for 30,000 minus a 5,000 rebate what happens to the first guy??? he is screwed!!! his car is now worth 5,000 less than he payed!! Customers know this so they wait until the end of the year to buy, so in order to sell to them they have to keep offering rebates. It is a vicious cycle that only lessens quality and takes away profit from the US automakers. I really hope that the US automakers get their acts together because as of now they produce one of the worst cars in the world. Only the Europeans make a worse car. but the European cars drive and perform at a much higher standard than the Americans. so realistically we have gotten stuck in the mass producing frame of mind. I like to think of it as the wall mart syndrome. They sell on such a large scale that everything is mass produced and has no character, and no quality. God help us!!!!

Answer 4

One overlooked factor is that Japan has a lot more car builders so their domestic market is real battlefield. Let's see- Mitsubishi, Mazda, Honda, Toyota, Daihatsu, Subaru, Isuzu, Nissan, Suzuki. That means they have to be good to survive. The US Big 3 on the other hand had a cozy oligopoly for a long time.

Another factor is that Japanese car builders own their own dealer networks. For some reason related to anti-trust legislation you have to sell cars through independent dealers in the US. The Japanese companies send their designers, engineers and marketing people out to their dealers to spend some time on the showroom floor. That way they know exactly what consumers want in a car.

Answer 5

Because of Japanese cars there are no British cars now. It is the same with motorcyles and TV sets. In a word, reliability. Watch any TV documentary about going across the desert or through the jungle. What do the explorers use? Toyota Landcruisers.

Answer 6

1)bad power to weight ratio
2)bad handleing/ hard for driver to "feel the road"
3)general bad engineering and reliability

Answer 7

us cars don't care about quality..

Answer 8

Didn't know they were?