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That is not the whole picture. In the 70's, there were a lot of quality issues with American cars and they were big gas guzzlers. Japanese auto makers could charge less to their nation's lower labor charges. Forward ahead to recent years, the Japanese cars are often no longer cheaper than American cars, with both Japanese and American car companies offering a range of prices and model lines including luxury cars/SUV's. Consumers when choosing a car, as with anything else, often will opt to pay more rather than less since they get more.
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TOKYO — Nissan Motor said on Thursday that it was suspending production at all of its Japanese factories after it discovered that uncertified technicians had conducted vehicle inspections even after a previous disclosure of the practice led to a major recall
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/business/nissan-japan-suspends-production.html
It gets better. Fast forward to the latest discovery of lies and deceit that has been on going for decades.. The list is LONG of Japenese car scandals not seen on local news stations.
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Japan's once-impregnable reputation for quality vehicles has taken a battering. Nissan Motor Co. has just announced plans to suspend local car production and is under regulatory scrutiny after admitting
it has used unauthorized safety inspectors.
Auto industry supplier Kobe Steel Inc. has fessed up to forging data on aluminum and other materials going back decades. Takata Corp., whose exploding air bags were the subject of the industry's biggest ever recall, filed for bankruptcy in June.
July, 2018
Nissan Motor has admitted that an internal review has revealed
falsified emissions testing data in most of its factories in Japan. The Asian country’s third-largest carmaker has not announced how many of its vehicles were involved in the controversy, though the company stated that inspectors used “altered measurement values” on emissions inspection reports.
Nissan has assured the public and its investors that investigations are now underway. The carmaker also stated that it had retained Nishimura & Asahi, a prominent Japanese law firm, to lead the investigation. Nevertheless, Nissan’s disclosure comes as the latest blow to the Japanese carmaker. Last October, after all, Nissan was faced with controversy after it was forced to stop the operations in its Japanese factories and recall 1.2 million of its cars after it was revealed that vehicle inspections in its facilities had been conducted by uncertified technicians
Subaru drawn into Japan quality management scandal
Subaru said it allowed unauthorised technicians to inspect its vehicles
for decades, as the carmaker became the latest Japanese company to reveal a problem with quality management.
Subaru’s admission — that it allowed
trainees to conduct final inspections on vehicles destined for the domestic market — raises further questions about Japan’s corporate governance, following a similar scandal at
Nissan and data falsification at
Kobe Steel.
