"American cars are superior" they said. "Other countries should buy more of our cars" they said.
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Toyota did it, Honda did it, everyone is doing it right now. Covid simply destroyed the modern manufacturing dogma and most of these companies have failed or not bothered to really recover from the supply chain collapse, since they were selling every single vehicle they could make for close to four years straight.
I don't think anybody said that since maybe the 1970s when Japanese vehicles started flooding the US.
So when metal shaving caused tons of Toyota Tundras to shit an engine in less than 1000 miles. Where was this statement?
People don’t like facts? Ok. Honda had exploding air bags. Toyota had improperly cleaned millings after producing the engines. VW lied about smog regulations. Let’s not get started about Land Rover. Oh and Jaguars had terrible QA.
Shit happens folks.
Ford literally let people die from a shit Explorer design.
My Cadillac CT5 has a recall for the transmission failing and causing the wheels to lock up.
The solution is a software patch that puts the car into limp mode preemptively if the car thinks that problem might happen. Then you know you need to go buy an identically-broken new transmission at your own expense.
Expect more recalls, these things usually come in batches as other OEMs jump on after the 1st person taking the biggest news cycle hit!
More enshitification. Making parts cheaper to increase profits.