Large amounts of spare parts made? Manufacturing process? Design differences?
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One thing Japanese brands like Toyota tend to be very good at is ensuring that the parts of their cars that are most likely to break with wear/age are designed to be replaced and manufactured inexpensively. These parts also tend to be ones that don’t damage other components of the car immediately when they fail. It keeps maintenance costs down, so more cars stay on the road. This increases demand for replacements parts, so they stay cheap. If a car is cheap to maintain, people are less likely to skip repairs or adopt a “I’ll just drive it until it dies” mentality. It’s a self-reinforcing cycle.
They’re not necessarily that much less likely to break than other brands (i.e., they aren’t “invincible” like people tend to say).
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