yes you are right the Japanese are very demmanding when it comes to things working as close to 100%, 100% of the time. But they've also got some cars on the list of lemons. So maybe the German/American idiference is starting to creep in. And the prices of those Accords is getting weird.
I guess with the Japanese approach and the fact that a company like Toyota makes sooooo many cars, it has a trickle down effect to all their model lines. They have solutions for every conceivable gremlin that can surface which they can apply not only to their Lexus line but to their tercel as well.
Porsche building so few cars and insistent on manufacturing so much of it on their own even with a Japanese level committment to quality, will simply never meet the same end result if low cost maintenace and reliability is a paramount concern. The budgets just are too out of proportion. For what Porsche has done on such a limited scale compared to Honda's S2000 is not bad at all.
But of course if I have an RMS leak I will surely be singing a different tune.
