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Toyota And Nissan Admit Their American-Made Vehicles Aren't Up To Japanese Standards (www.motor1.com)
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[–] 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

That's just what they want you to believe. Cars have to be 25 years old before they can be imported, because Mercedes dealerships where butthurt about ⅕ beamers being imports four decades ago.
Technology connections on YouTube touched on it in a video, if I recall right domestic sales went up a couple percent for Mercedes dealerships, no where remotely close to +20%.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It used to be a thing where you could get a job driving brand new BMWs around Europe until it hit like 6,000km so they could be imported to the US cheaper as a "used" car.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    Why wouldn't they just put them up on a dyno and just spin the tires?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I would expect the job wasn't just "we'll pay you drive around non-stop for 9 hours/day". I bet it was probably more like "use this car for your commute and stuff, but be sure to have it up to 6km in X weeks" or something like that.

    It would probably take a long time to run up 6k on a dyno, completely occupying that dyno for just one car. Doubt that would have been worth the cost of one (or multiple) dynos.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    That makes sense. Or even as simple as perhaps renting out the car or something like that. But with extreme restrictions about cleanliness and such or something, I don't know. Thank you, your ideas absolutely helped

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