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The Japanese and Korean cultures are different (not saying that Korean’s and Japanese get along, they generally don’t). Both Japanese and Koreans have a ‘honor’ aspect to work products. Their cultures also tend to be ‘conformist’. Very few if any attempts to create fake eggs and sell them as real, putting things in ramen that really don’t belong there, melamine in milk.. etc. – and if/when it occurs, it ends up being very embarrassing to them.
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Lol… You don’t work with any of the korean smartphone makers do you?[/quote]A very close friend of mine has… LG to be specific.
[quote svelte]What a coincidence…an insert *precisely* where IIHS conducts the test…
You don’t suppose they were trying to rig the results, do you? An honorable car company wouldn’t do that![/quote]What percentage of that same japanese company is owned by a US company? You are also pointing at one specific incident, I have shown systemic issues.
As for NGK; there may be other details like strong-arming through patents and access to OEM level sourcing to force a group to act as a ‘cartel’ supplying spark plugs. It was not only NGK that was involved.
Most of the items you listed does not even get close to the level of the issues with Chinese supplied goods. You are mostly showing price fixing and a little gaming of the system (If you know anything about auto crash tests, you’ll know that the low-speed collision tests are largely BS. A NASCAR or Formula vehicle will fail the lowspeed tests, but are able to exceed tests in the higher speed ranges. That beam is only useful in low speed collision tests) Part of the problem is building a structure that will resist 5mph 4000lb collision with no/minimal damage – none to frame, but have the frame absorb collisions that are of a higher speed so that the deacceleration of the vehicle will not kill the occupants. The ‘structure’ needs to not add appreciable weight to the vehicle. Remember those bumpers in 1975? Did you ever try picking one of those up when off the car?
BTW: Roll-over tests were not required until 2004. Toyota was actually doing them before that. The court case was almost trying to use Toyota’s own info to prosecute it even though the tests were not required at the time the vehicle was built.
To help you along, I’ll bring up Fukushima, but as I give, I take away. Fukushima also demonstrates another characteristic of Japanese culture. Extreme deference to authority – even when such deference is wrong, dangerous or downright deadly. Since I added to the Japanese list, so I add to the Chinese list; how about the complete copying of Cisco router code by Huawei so complete that even a bug that had been fixed was replicated in Huawei gear.
