Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Japanese Domestic Brand Cars

By Yusuke Tani


I like Japanese cars, but sometimes Japanese brands are funny. Lexus was born in the U.S, but it is a Toyota. In 2006, Lexus was sold in Japan. Anyway, cars are kind of my hobby. Especially, I like watching car advertisements on TV. Japan has a lot of domestic cars, especially compact cars and minivans.

I think Japanese national brand cars should be sold in North America. Some cars have different names between North America and Japan. Some cars have the same names between North America and Japan, but different cars. For instance, there is Honda Odyssey. Japan has a different Odyssey.

Japanese car companies have lots of money, more than North American companies because Japanese car companies have great parts companies, and they succeeded to make cars efficiently. Toyota and Honda can make almost all cars in one factory. They can almost make the cars by the mechanization more efficiently than GM and Ford. There are a lot of lineups in Japan with a little demand because Toyota and Honda can make from Sedan to Minivan on one platform.

They spend a lot of money on TV-CM. Japanese people think English is a cool language, so car ads have used lots of English words. It’s cool. I like Honda CMs because Honda’s commercial has humorous ideas and creativity.

Copy the links below into your browser address bar to see the car commercials.

Nissan Cube (2002) Next generation Cube will be sold in North America.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=O17GJVpFTfk&feature=related

Honda Step Wagon (2007)
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=JW56iXgCEik&feature=related

Toyota Estima previous model (2000)
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOuONdD9IA&feature=related

4 comments:

  1. Thanks, Yusuke, for sharing your passion for cars with us. There are some definite differences between North American cars and the Japanese domestic brands.

    Pamela

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  2. which car do you recommend for me?

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  3. To Pamela.
    Thanks, Pamela. I had lots of fabulous experiences at the NLC, and I was taught lots of good educations by you. I'm very lucky person to study here. I have so many unforgettable memories in Fort.St John.
    See you someday, Pamela !

    To Yu.
    Hi ! Thank you for writing down to this form.
    I recommend to buy GT-R, but we are students. Is it possible? We don't need to have high performance cars. It is very important things for us, so I recommend compact cars like Honda Fit.

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