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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • “Domestic” doesn’t really have any meaning any more. Toyota and Hyundai make their North American market products in Alabama, and GM’s NA factories are in Canada and Mexico.

    Nowadays it’s not about where it was built, it’s about where it was designed. The Asian automakers still design more reliable vehicles than either American or European automakers, although some Asian automakers have begun to “Americanize” their products for a greater emphasis on expedient manufacture versus reliability and ease of maintenance. (Toyota’s recent HVAC changes is an example here, as they’ve started to move away from easily accessible and replaceable evaporator cores in some of their cars in favor of a self-contained airbox that’s easier/faster to install during assembly. Instead of popping out the glovebox and blower assembly and accessing the evap core without having to remove the whole airbox assembly, they’re starting to require dash pulls.)