Toyota and Nissan are warning Japanese buyers that US-made vehicles imported to the island nation might have quality issues. This is what automakers are saying.
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.
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.
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
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.
Why wouldn’t they just put them up on a dyno and just spin the tires?
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.
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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