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Drivers in the United States have loved Japanese-made vehicles for more than 50 years. With time comes new automobile innovations that have kept Americans' hold on Japanese vehicles strong. Flip ...
Here are a few examples where American cars are often considered competitive or even superior to their Japanese counterparts, with help from Marcus Withers, founder of Withers Automotive LLC.
According to the iSeeCars study, the Suburban has the potential to last for 265,732 miles — more than any other American vehicle and more than any vehicle period except the Toyota Sequoia and ...
The history of the Korean automotive industry began in August 1955, when Choi Mu-seong, a Korean businessman, and two of his brothers (Choi Hae-seong and Choi Soon-seong), mounted a modified and localized jeep engine on a US military jeep-style car body made with the sheet metal from a junk oil drum can and military junk Jeep parts to manufacture its first car, called the Sibal (car).
The agreement requires Korea to reduce "car taxes that are based on engine displacement that allegedly disadvantage U.S.-made cars, which tend to be larger than domestically-produced Korean cars". [53] The Obama administration has opposed these engine displacement taxes even while vowing to support domestic limits on greenhouse gas emissions. [54]
Rice boy is a US derogatory term for the driver or builder of an import-car hot rod. [4] The terms may disparage cars or car enthusiasts as imposters or wanna-bes, using cheap modifications to imitate the appearance of high performance. The term is often defined as offensive or racist stereotyping.
Toyota Camry. The Toyota Corolla’s bigger brother, the family-friendly Camry, also earned high marks from experts for its reliability. HotCars ranked it No. 7 on its list of most reliable ...
In the year 2009, in the largest decline during economic crisis, fewer than 6 million new passenger cars were sold in the United States, and the total number of new sold and leased cars and light trucks dropped to just above 13 million from a normal pre-crisis level of 20 million. [13]