Why is the Japanese auto industry so successfull, when they are making the vehicles in the United states-CON?

Question

Why is it that the Japanese auto industry is so successfull, when they are making the vehicles in the United states and chevy and other American automible industries are not successfull? Would you not think that the American automobile would do better hence the fact that they are BOTH made in America?

Answer 1

the answer is unions.they lower quality protect the lazy and worthless

Answer 2

This question is often debated. Most people in-the-know agree that new Asian cars are less troublesome than North American or European cars.

The Japanese in particular are able to build a better car and make money on it because:

1. Their corporate culture rewards constant improvement and innovation. This is true regardless of whether a Honda is built in the US or in Japan. Engineering is considered as important as is Finance.

2. The cost to build a car is less. The inefficiency of North American auto manufacturing is commonly laid at the feet of the UAW and its overly generous health care benefits and inflated wages. However, this is not the only reason. Everyone from the government, to management and also the workers are all to blame for this shameful situation. Although improvements have been implemented, catching, or passing the Asians, is a very ambitious endeavor.

Answer 3

The main reason is engineering and Economic efficiency. American companies mass produce their vehicles. They prodce the cars before they are sold, and wait for people to by them. The numbers prodced are based on estimates. One of the fundimentals of Japanese production techniques is just in time production, ie they produce only enough to cover the required numbersand in doing so eliminate waste. They engineer their cars a lot better than almost everyone as well. If you have a look at the numbers of faults per car, Japanese auto makers ( especially Toyota) all sit close to the top of the list with fewest numbers of faults. They also produce motors with better power to feul comsumption ratios which is a big consideration with rising petrol prices. They just seem to do a better all round job...

Answer 4

Biggest reason that I have read is management style and relationship with the workers. For example you might remember the old Chevy Nova and Toyota Corolla models of the late 80's. They were basically identical cars designed by Toyota and built in both GM and Toyota plants here in the U.S. GM would raise unholy hell if anybody stopped the assembly line and used some cheap parts in the cars that Toyota didn't approve of. Toyota used higher quality parts, and encouraged it's workers to "pull the plug" on the assembly line anytime they found a defect in the cars. They didn't want a single car getting past them with a defect if they could help it. GM on the other hand wanted to just make as many as fast as they can. Similar situation is going on now with the Pontiac Vibe and Toyota in that the Toyota model and the pontiac are essentially the same. GM is attempting to listen more to Toyota in building these and seems to be why they are having a fairly good sales reputation and dependability. I can't remember the name of the Toyota "Vibe" to save me but you probably know the one I am referring to. The Japanese started in the 70's looking down the road at sales instead of simply the next quarter. That is why all the stories of the old Celicas, Corollas, Honda Civics, and such with hundreds of thousands of miles on them with few repairs. Seems that almost everybody has had a story like that at one time or other. When is the last time you heard somebody say that they drove their Corsica 300 thousand miles with only routine maintenance??? American car companies have gotten much better for sure, but they still haven't adopted the Japanese corporate standard of not putting profit first. The plants here in the U.S. building Accords, Camry's, etc. are staffed with Americans that could just as well be building Chevy and Fords, but are working for a company that is not stretching every single dollar to make the car as cheap as possible. To be fair American car companies are saddled with huge retirement and medical expenses that others don't have that contributes to them needingto cut corners to make ends meet. Hence the bankruptcy rumors on both Ford and GM recently.

Answer 5

It relies upon on what style of crumple...If it is a head on melancholy or in elementary terms a hiccup of a recession. the two way, the Philippines (like a number of different usa) is heavily based at america. look what occurred while the plain recession hit the Dow, while it fell, the pse fell...no longer effortless, so an prolonged way shares could no longer recuperate by way of fact of all of the interior and exterior factors. The exterior factors are heavily inspired via the states, as an occasion, assuming it reaches a factor of melancholy, it could stop importation of the two products and immigrants, subsequently we loose our greatest figuring out to purchase and advertising considerable different and between the biggest sources of the remitances that now form a considerable component of the financial equipment... i think of we would be heading nowhere so right now we does not additionally be conscious that our financial equipment had already collapsed... I recommend we've not even recovered totally by way of fact the 1997 financial disaster...(i think of) the united statescollapse could deliver a crumple of the international financial equipment... If the united statesmonetary equipment could crumple...it extremely is

Answer 6

The answer is simply quality control. Hondas, Toyotas, Nissans, have all been made in America under strict Japanese quality rules. GM and Ford have made great gaines in recent years and are probably up to the same quality standards as the also made in America Hyundai's.. P.S. The Corolla, GEO Prism cars were made at the same plant with the same workers in California in the 90s

Answer 7

Honda, which is not, as yet, made in the US, saw the trend that Detroit preferred to ignore. Namely, people wanting an economical to operate, smaller, less expensive automobile that was reliable. Detroit preferred to keep making gas guzzlers. My first Honda was purchased in 1981 and was run by me and then my daughter until the body began to rust away (They forgot about salt corrosion during shipping) about 15 years without a major repair getting 30-35 MPG and never got stuck in the snow. I worked for GM and it was well know to look at the sticker and NOT buy a GM car made on Friday (workers getting ready for the weekend drinking) or Monday (worker hangover). US is just catching up re: reliability. Unions? No pride in producing? Poor engineering? Care less about the consumer? Take your pick.