Reply #12: True. However, Detroit gave Japan about a 15-year head start, no? [View All]

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Even someone as removed from Big Auto Business as I was/am could see, in 1974, that "the world had changed forever" as a result of the Oil Embargo. My point is that Detroit's inertia at the time let the Japanese car makers get two legs up on them.

COUNTERPOINT: Toyota foisted some truly horrible V-6 engines upon American consumers back in '98. These Pieces Of Feces would begin to burn oil at around 50,000 miles and Toyota refused to honor its own warranties, preferring to blame its own customers for "improper oil changes."