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Friday, February 21, 2020

China is the new Japan - and the West is falling behind. And instead of cooperation, the West offers hostility, Sinophobia* and militaristic aggression.

* When in the 1970s Klevius as a young and poor single father with a daughter to take care of while paying off shared debt that the ex-wife didn't bother about (nor did she pay any of the money the court had ordered - incl. child maintenance) he had to find a car that was both used, cheap, good quality and safe. He found one in a much driven Mazda Luce 1800 from the 1960s. So how could such a fantastic car be so cheap as used? Because of racist Japophobia it was considered a "Japanese rice cup". However, it performed much better than any of the new medium class European cars "normal" people bought. This made Klevius take an extra look at Western prejudice against anything East-Asian.


Not only was the car still the most beautful (Bertone) but its technical quality surpassed everything else on the road (Mazda factory Toyo Kogyo started as a precision tool industry - which explains why Mazda was the only one that succeeded to make a functioning rotary engine as well - which after winning Le Mans was forbidden to compete). As one out of a myriad of small details: Unlike other family cars the OHC lifters used ball bearings - which meant that many Mazda Luce got a bad reputation for being hard to adjust the valves. And the reason for this was that when stupid Japophobic garage guys pushed in their calibrating tool they sometimes managed to alter the postion of the flat part of the ball.that was supposed to rest against the valve lifter. When not manipulated the engine was very smooth and strong compared to its competitors. And the powerful generator created massive light while the equally powerful electric (most cars in the 1970s had mechnic ones) fuel pump came handy in cold (more than -30 Celsius) winter mornings.

In the 1990s Japan was still the world's sole master of top quality. That's why the US used sanctions etc. pressure on Japan while EU was created to protect European manufacturers from Japanese high quality.

The worst performing Japanese brand was Nissan - which, btw, is building cars together with Renault which was the worst overall! Out of the 78 worst performing models there were no Japanese except for Nissan. However, more than half of the 28 best performing models were Japanese. It's the very same tendency as when Klevius reported about the Swedish survey from the 1990s which showed a similar pattern when it came to car fires.

However, today China is in the same position as Japan back then - only ten times bigger. And facing the same racism. The old "yellow threat".

Back in the 1990s Sweden's biggest insurance company Folksam published statistics on car fires (no, back then islamism inspired muslim youth didn't contribute that much as yet) which without a doubt showed that Japanese cars (like Japanes TVs) were much safer due to better build quality.


2019 failure rate on three year old cars in vehicle road worthiness in Finland.



Malli    Katsastusten
  lukumäärä    Hylkäys-%    Ajettujen kilometrien keskiarvo        Yleisin hylkäyssyy    Toiseksi yleisin hylkäyssyy

Model,  cars tested,  % failure,  average km,   main failure,  second main failure

Renault    CLIO    1362    17,3    41000        Valmistajan kilpi    Etuakselisto
Dacia    SANDERO    201    13,9    46000        Etuakselisto   
Ford    TOURNEO
    CONNECT    166    13,9    126000            
Jaguar    JAGUAR XE    131    13,7    63000            
Mercedes-Benz    VITO    212    13,2    142000            
Mercedes-Benz    SPRINTER    283    11,7    236000        Seisontajarrun
    dynamometritesti   
Tesla Motors    Mallit yhteensä    120    10,8    61000            
Dacia    LOGAN    189    9,5    56000            
Hyundai    I40    147    9,5    77000            
Renault    CAPTUR    786    9,0    41000        Etuakselisto    Valmistajan kilpi
Kia    CARENS    168    8,9    66000            
Nissan    MICRA    363    8,5    32000        Etuakselisto   
Volkswagen    TRANSPORTER    332    8,1    129000            
Kia    SORENTO    211    8,1    74000            
Mercedes-Benz    E    1224    7,1    108000        Etuakselisto    Sisäinen
    valvontajärjestelmä
    (OBD)
BMW    5    1253    7,1    91000        Sisäinen
    valvontajärjestelmä
    (OBD)   
Volvo    V70    390    6,9    122000            
Dacia    DUSTER    620    6,6    56000        Lähivalo    Sisäinen
    valvontajärjestelmä
    (OBD)
BMW    X3    209    6,2    72000            
Volkswagen    CADDY    476    6,1    108000        Renkaat ja vanteet   
Mercedes-Benz    GLC    462    5,8    66000        Etuakselisto   
Kia    PICANTO    299    5,7    31000            
Kia    SPORTAGE    868    5,5    59000        Etuakselisto    Seisontajarrun
    dynamometritesti
Citroen    C5    112    5,4    81000            
Fiat    500    114    5,3    35000            
Audi    A4    2182    5,2    71000        Jousitus ja
    iskunvaimennus   
Ford    FIESTA    2318    5,2    41000        Jousitus ja
    iskunvaimennus    Ohjausnivelet ja
    -tangot
Opel    CORSA    1082    5,0    42000        Sisäinen
    valvontajärjestelmä
    (OBD)    Seisontajarrun
    dynamometritesti
Kia    OPTIMA    363    5,0    71000            
BMW    X5    162    4,9    68000            
BMW    2    375    4,8    56000            
Renault    TALISMAN    188    4,8    66000            
Peugeot    3008    126    4,8    51000            
Citroen    C4 CACTUS    128    4,7    53000            
Opel    INSIGNIA    565    4,6    76000        Taka-akselisto   
Skoda    CITIGO    244    4,5    44000            
Opel    ZAFIRA TOURER    112    4,5    78000            
Seat    IBIZA    181    4,4    44000            
Citroen    BERLINGO    184    4,4    58000            
Mercedes-Benz    GLE    211    4,3    64000            
Kia    NIRO    249    4,0    52000            
Citroen    C4 PICASSO    150    4,0    70000            
Renault    MEGANE    386    3,9    48000            
Nissan    JUKE    159    3,8    43000            
Ford    S-MAX    258    3,5    90000            
Volvo    V40    1660    3,5    58000        Jousitus ja
    iskunvaimennus    Renkaat ja vanteet
Mercedes-Benz    C    1553    3,4    64000        Etuakselisto   
Peugeot    308    744    3,4    54000        Sisäinen
    valvontajärjestelmä
    (OBD)   
Ford    MONDEO    1443    3,3    84000        Käyttöjarru   
Opel    ASTRA    3295    3,3    53000        Käyttöjarru   
Peugeot    2008    275    3,3    43000            
BMW    3    993    3,2    68000        Sisäinen
    valvontajärjestelmä
    (OBD)   
Kia    CEED    1804    3,2    54000            
Nissan    X-TRAIL    505    3,2    68000        Sisäinen
    valvontajärjestelmä
    (OBD)   
BMW    4    224    3,1    66000            
Ford    B-MAX    129    3,1    43000            
Nissan    NOTE    691    3,0    41000            
Volvo    S90    297    3,0    78000            
Citroen    C3    442    2,9    39000            
Peugeot    508    205    2,9    73000            
Skoda    SUPERB    1831    2,8    90000            
Mercedes-Benz    A    708    2,7    47000            
Volvo    V60    1460    2,7    74000        Renkaat ja vanteet   
Volkswagen    TOURAN    677    2,7    80000            
Ford    GRAND C-MAX    189    2,7    74000            
Seat    IBIZA ST    114    2,6    49000            
Kia    SOUL    116    2,6    46000            
Land Rover    DISCOVERY
    SPORT    116    2,6    71000            
BMW    X1    542    2,6    62000            
Volvo    V90    433    2,5    94000            
Kia    RIO    2265    2,5    40000        Etuakselisto   
Volkswagen    JETTA    320    2,5    51000            
Audi    A3    1413    2,5    54000            
BMW    1    457    2,4    59000            
Nissan    QASHQAI    4186    2,4    52000            
Citroen    C4    420    2,4    43000            
Volkswagen    PASSAT    2689    2,4    82000            
Mini    Mallit yhteensä    169    2,4    46000            

Mazda    CX-5    218    2,3    63000            
Renault    KADJAR    872    2,3    57000            
Kia    VENGA    362    2,2    37000            
Nissan    PULSAR    547    2,2    43000            
Ford    FOCUS    3109    2,2    53000            
Mercedes-Benz    CLA    745    2,2    51000            
Hyundai    I30    656    2,1    50000            
Subaru    LEGACY    283    2,1    70000            
Opel    MOKKA    854    2,1    48000            
Mitsubishi    OUTLANDER    383    2,1    70000            
Peugeot    208    764    2,1    37000            
Seat    LEON    432    2,1    58000            
Volvo    S60    438    2,1    64000            
Mercedes-Benz    GLA    245    2,0    54000            
Opel    KARL    344    2,0    35000            
Skoda    FABIA    1330    2,0    48000            
Hyundai    TUCSON    347    2,0    60000            
Skoda    YETI    548    2,0    59000            
Toyota    AYGO    199    2,0    41000            
Volkswagen    UP!    150    2,0    39000            
Toyota    YARIS    2936    2,0    40000        Käyttöjarru   
Citroen    C3 PICASSO    156    1,9    43000            
Volkswagen    BEETLE    104    1,9    38000            
Mazda    3    472    1,9    45000            
Ford    ECOSPORT    105    1,9    42000            
Audi    A6    795    1,9    80000            
Mazda    6    427    1,9    55000            
Ford    C-MAX    273    1,8    55000            
Mini    COOPER    114    1,8    44000            
Seat    LEON ST    748    1,7    64000            
Subaru    FORESTER    462    1,7    61000            
Skoda    OCTAVIA    4959    1,7    75000            
Volkswagen    TIGUAN    777    1,7    67000            
Volkswagen    POLO    1744    1,7    41000            
Subaru    XV    124    1,6    46000            
Honda    JAZZ    383    1,6    34000            
Ford    KUGA    452    1,6    64000            
Volvo    XC90    454    1,5    72000            
BMW    X4    135    1,5    66000            
Toyota    PRIUS    270    1,5    50000            
Mazda    2    210    1,4    37000            
Mitsubishi    ASX    699    1,4    51000            
Mercedes-Benz    B    359    1,4    48000            
Toyota    RAV4    1013    1,4    62000            
Porsche    Mallit yhteensä    146    1,4    51000            
Honda    CR-V    882    1,4    59000            
Mazda    CX-3    455    1,3    44000            
Volvo    XC70    313    1,3    97000            
Suzuki    VITARA    816    1,2    49000            
Toyota    AVENSIS    2792    1,2    58000            
Volkswagen    GOLF    3827    1,2    57000            
Audi    Q3    349    1,2    61000            
Toyota    AURIS    3389    1,1    50000            
Audi    Q7    286    1,1    70000            
Honda    CIVIC    1246    1,0    48000            
Skoda    RAPID    682    1,0    50000            
Volvo    XC60    1172    0,9    77000            
Volkswagen    GOLF
    SPORTSVAN    752    0,9    44000            
Hyundai    I20    1313    0,9    40000            
Audi    Q5    342    0,9    70000            
Seat    TOLEDO    376    0,8    50000            
Seat    ATECA    127    0,8    58000            
Suzuki    SX4    132    0,8    47000            
Toyota    VERSO    278    0,7    61000            
Honda    HR-V    846    0,7    50000            
Toyota    COROLLA    603    0,3    39000            
Lexus    Mallit yhteensä    256    0,0    56000            
                                 
LÄHDE: TRAFICOM


Most US states require Vehicle Inspections, but the rules are much more loose and they are not really a road worthiness inspection like in the UK or EU.

Comparing the internal vehicle Testing requirements between different EU states.

Training is a specific area where the British MOT Test falls behind EU with the Testing authorities (VOSA) offering no formal training as such, but merely providing just a two day course which, to quote their own policy is “…to calibrate skills”. In EU there are more formal and stringent arrangements to train vehicle Testing staff. In Germany, for example, Testers require a year of training.

Britain is also well behind EU when it comes to using automated equipment and modern electronic technology. A partially computerised system has already been installed into all Testing Stations in Britain, but in terms of fully utilising the most modern equipment coupled with modern computer technology this will fall well short of systems which have been in use for some time in EU States, incl. the Republic of Ireland.



Peter Klevius wrote:

Peter Klevius wrote:

It's not just Lexus - it's Japanese world leading quality


Ignorant people don't realize that Japanese quality is older than Germany is as a nation. The pre-history of Japanese quality goes deep into Shinto tradition. No dude, Shinto isn't a stupid "monotheist religion"!

There's a multitude of quality surveys out there from the last half of a century which could vary considerably due to methods etc. However, when summed up the Japanese stand out as overwhelmingly superior. And despite an equally long period of besserwissers telling us it won't last - it still lasts.

Just one example from a safety aspect:

Risk of car fires recorded by Sweden's biggest insurance company Folksam


Japanese brands on average face a far less risk of bursting into flames, than do European cars (see note above)! Especially Volvo and French cars, but also all the German brands, are much often involved in accidental or even spontaneous car fire. Although this is well in line with previous studies on TV-fires, which found that European brands were involved up to 50 times more often than similar Japanese and Korean brands, Volvo and others continue to talk safety! When a Swedish mother left her child for day care, she found her new Volvo X90 in spontanenous flames after having left it for a few minutes. Luckily she took her older child with her inside the day care center! These kinds of stories are very common. So next time you buy a car you may reconsider the safety issue, especially the one that concerns the real life situation where you want to use your car.

The most dangerous brands? BMW, VW & Peugeot plus, of course, perhaps the worst, Volvo
which, apart from burning very easily, has much more than the average of safety problems related to poor build quality.

According to Swedish Folksam's insurance statistics on car fires only one out of the 55 most dangerous cars in Sweden was Japanese, whereas 34 out of the 47 least dangerous cars were Japanese (with Toyota and Honda in top).



Most US states require Vehicle Inspections, but the rules are much more loose and they are not really a road worthiness inspection like in the UK or EU.

Comparing the internal vehicle Testing requirements between different EU states.

Training is a specific area where the British MOT Test falls behind EU with the Testing authorities (VOSA) offering no formal training as such, but merely providing just a two day course which, to quote their own policy is “…to calibrate skills”. In EU there are more formal and stringent arrangements to train vehicle Testing staff. In Germany, for example, Testers require a year of training.

Britain is also well behind EU when it comes to using automated equipment and modern electronic technology. A partially computerised system has already been installed into all Testing Stations in Britain, but in terms of fully utilising the most modern equipment coupled with modern computer technology this will fall well short of systems which have been in use for some time in EU States, incl. the Republic of Ireland.




Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Audi/VW: The world's worst polluter among car manufacturers - and the most dangerous against humans.


Klevius question: Is Audi/VW a muslim brand that ought not to be "offended" by media, or why is it that the world's worst brand is covered up?

How many have Audi/VW killed and injured - apart from its victims in Nazi Germany? And how many more in the future? Comparative reference point being Japanese manufacturers.

Whereas a Japanese manufacturer immediately is crucified when its non-Japanese supplier fails or commits financial fraud, Audi/VW's home made disasters are "excused" with something like "they all do it" etc.? However, sometimes some media have to report anyway (see below).

Study: Volkswagen’s excess emissions will lead to 1,200 premature deaths in Europe



Audi/Volkswagen Recalls 766,000 Vehicles Worldwide on Fears You Won't be Able to Brake When Needed




Klevius: These are just the tip of an iceberg when it comes to Audi/VW.







Klevius wrote:

Saturday, May 16, 2015


VW/Audi, part of Hitler's revenge on the after-world

The German protestant myth and the Japanese Shinto secret

Audi has constantly managed to score below average quality. Japanese have constantly managed to score above average. Why?

Has Hitler's cars victimized more people than his army?


            German car maker Audi used Nazi slave labor during World War II

It all started with the stupid idea of a cheap car for the masses with the driving unit over the driving wheels in the rear, the battery in the middle, and the fuel tank in the front as the main impact zone. As a consequence the engine was made air cooled with a huge noisy fan. Luckily we don't see these kinds of dangerous cars anymore - except for Porsche of course. Ever tried to drive a classic Porsche on a road littered with grovel, old leaves etc., or just wet?! The Beetle was definitely safer because of its lower power output and smother on the road. However, the noise is almost the same.

The need for a cheap, simple car to be mass-produced for Hitler's new Autobahn network of Germany, was formulated by Hitler himself, the leader of the National-socialist Germany. In June 1934 Ferdinand Porsche received a contract from Hitler to design a "people's car" (or Volkswagen). The production of this death trap went on from 1938 until 2003. In other words, VW continued to spit out this dangerous car in less developed countries for profit for 40 years after its much safer front engine and front wheel driven successor Golf had been introduced.

In 1937, Porsche joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (becoming member no. 5,643,287) as well as Schutzstaffel (SS). By 1938, Porsche was using the SS as security members and drivers at his factory, and later set up a special unit called SS Sturmwerk Volkswagen. In 1942, Porsche reached the rank of SS-Oberführer. During the war, Porsche was further decorated with the SS-Ehrenring and awarded the War Merit Cross.

A new city, "Stadt des KdF-Wagens" was founded near Fallersleben for the Volkswagen factory, but wartime production concentrated almost exclusively on the military Kübelwagen and Schwimmwagen variants. Mass production of the car, which later became known as the Beetle, began after the end of the war. The city is named Wolfsburg today and is still the headquarters of the Volkswagen Group.

Hitler contracted Porsche in 1934 to design and build it to his exacting standards. Ferdinand Porsche and his team took until 1938 to finalise the design. This is one of the first rear-engined cars. With over 21 million manufactured (21,529,464) in an air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive configuration, the Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured and most dangerous car of a single design platform, worldwide.


 This car was made in the 1960s at the same time as this Japanese Mazda Luce (below) which in every aspect was its direct opposite - except for the price tag. Yet, people continued buying the catastrophic Beetle! Why? Because it was German and you couldn't trust the Japanese, could you.

VW Beetle 1966: Air cooled engine based on WW2 technology. Maximum Output:  50hp, Top speed: 123 km/h.
0-60mph  23.0 (declared by factory but usually slower - the lousy engine rarely worked as it was planned to).



A more expensive but poor quality Audi from the same time

Audi 1700, 1966, 71 hp / 72 PS, top speed: 148 km/h (declared by factory - not in real life); accelerations: 0- 60 mph 14.8 s (declared by factory - not in real life). The engine was extremely old fashioned compared to Mazda Luce's engine. Moreover, it was nowhere near the quality and reliability of the Japanese. The car was in every other aspect also inferior. Where the Audi had mechanical fuel pump, poor electric generator, poor brakes etc. Mazda was just the opposite.


Already in the late 1950s the Japanese technological and quality superiority was obvious. Just compare the bikes above from BMW and Honda.

Mazda 1500 Luce 1966: 84 hp/86 PS, top speed: 160 km/h; accelerations: 0- 60 mph 14.3 s (declared by a cautious factory but usually faster). OHC, Alu top, 50/50% weight distrib. Kad all the latest safety devices etc that VW lacked. The most beautiful (did BMW copy it?) and reliable (compared to its time) sedan ever made? Remember that Mazda was the only one who managed to develope a functioning rotary engine! After the 1992 le Mans win Mazda's rotary engine was, of course, excluded from racing again!

Sweden's biggest motoring organization warns: This is why Audi/VW engines fail



Is Audi the world's worst "luxury" car?



 compared to the best



Some voices from VW/Audi victims further down on the posting



Klevius wrote:

Wednesday, November 12, 2014


Japan makes the world's top technology - yet Europe gets the press! Why?


Why is the media shouting FIRST EVER when a bunch of European countries try to copy what Japan did a decade ago?!


Nissan rocket no. 1 with the Hayabusa robot first ever in the world to land and bring back stuff from a body (Itokawa asteroid) outside Earth/Moon




Nissan rocket no. 2  Nissan GT-R Nismo the world's fastest non-electric super car




With a lap time of 7 min 8 sec Nissan GTR is the fastest, (non-hybrid*) globally-homologated road car around the world's most famous race track Nurburgring in Germany.

The old GTR was the first car to go under 8 minutes at Nurburgring.

* i.e. using a battery and Japanese hybrid technology to get extra power for the short time the ride lasts.


A Nissan Skyline* GTR ATESSA 4WD (2700 cc 6 cyl 280-1600 hp) from the 1990s  - the Japanese legend that Lambourghini Gallardo (5000 cc) was aimed to beat - more than a decade later! But consider huge difference in quality! The old Skyline GTR has the world record for legal cars abt 350 km/h on a German (!) autobahn (unofficial >380 km/h)!

What all GTRs have in common compared to non-Japanese super cars is superior quality. Already in the 1990s a Porsche CEO admitted that they can never achieve the same quality level as the Japanese.

* The new GTR has dropped the Skyline name. However, the basics are the same: 4WD and a small but powerful 6 cylinder engine.



Thursday, March 20, 2014



Obama fines the cleanest cars and the highest quality - while the culprit is a US company and a rotten legal system!


What Obama & Co did against Toyota is perhaps the worst of crimes against consumers

but quite in line with other evils of his administration - like the eager support of medieval islamofascism.




Electrical failures (like other types of failures) rare in Japanese cars - because of a superior production policy compared to all others. 

Decades of quality surveys paint an unambiguous picture.

Just one of hundreds of examples. In a study of the worst models, two thirds of all Chrysler Sebring’s (66 per cent) experienced electrical breakdowns, while the Hyundai Matrix (63 per cent) and Mercedes-Benz E Class (60 per cent) followed closely behind. The study also found that over 25 per cent of Renault, Saab, MG, Audi, Citroen, Seat and BMW models suffered electrical failure each year.

In contrast, just one out of seven Subarus developed an electrical fault each year, whilst there were no recorded claims with the Honda S2000 (the best high rewing non-turbo 4 in line engine ever built), Mazda 5, and Toyota Prius (the world's first mass produced hybrid already in 1997).




Why Toyota Must Replace Flawed CTS Gas Pedal With Superior (Japanese) Denso Pedal
By Paul Niedermeyer on February 1, 2010

Update: a portal to all of TTAC’s articles on the subject of Toyota gas pedals is here:

Toyota uses two different electronic gas pedal designs in its cars. The version built by CTS (lower) is the subject of a massive recall, and the 2.3 million units in affected Toyota cars are to be “fixed” by the insertion of a steel shim. This CTS design is also being modified for new Toyota production, currently suspended. To our knowledge, Toyotas built with the other design (by Denso, upper) are not subject to any recalls or NHTSA investigations,. We have spent the last two days tearing down both units, and familiarized ourselves with their designs, reviewed Toyota’s “shim fix”, and replicated the fix ourselves. Toyota’s planned fix will undoubtedly reduce the likelihood of sticky pedals in the short term, but after examining both units, we are convinced that the CTS unit is intrinsically a flawed design, and poses safety risks in the long term, even with the fix. The only right action for Toyota is to acknowledge the long history of problems with the CTS-type unit, and replace them all with the superior Denso or another pedal unit that lacks the intrinsic flaws of the CTS design.

Before we briefly review the key design differences, we must acknowledge that Toyota is ultimately responsible for both designs. CTS has stated that its product was built to Toyota specifications. What we don’t know (or understand) is why Toyota has two such fundamentally different units in production. Is one unit cheaper to build? Or was CTS tooled up to produce its unit because of other similar units it builds for other manufacturers? What we do know is that the CTS unit has been used in Toyota products since 2005, whereas the Denso unit has been in use since well before that time. Toyotas sold in Europe are also subject to a similar recall, and based on the description of the issues and the unit, it appears that it is the same or similar design as the CTS unit, but we do not know if it was built by CTS or another supplier.

The key component in question is the friction arm of the CTS. It is both essential and desirable to have a certain defined degree of friction in these electronic gas pedal assemblies. The amount of friction is designed to be some degree less than the return spring, so that when the pedal is released, it returns to the closed position. But the friction (hysteresis) makes it easier to maintain a steady throttle setting, and relieves strain from pushing against the spring continuously. It simulates the intrinsic friction that is present in the traditional throttle cable as it passes through the cable housing.

The two units generate the desired degree of friction in very different ways. In the Denso unit (above), the return spring (steel coil) is squeezed on both sides of its housing. It rubs against the plastic housing as it compresses, which generates the desired amount of friction. Both sides of the full length of the Denso coil are in continuous contact with the rubbed are, spreading out the contact area size. And the metal to plastic interface seems to be relatively unproblematic.

The CTS unit is a fundamentally different design. The friction is generated by two “teeth” (A) that extend from the friction arm, and ride in two grooved channels of the housing (B). The friction arm is an extension of the pedal itself, and moves as the pedal is moved. Both the friction arm, its teeth and the surface it rubs against are plastic. Notice the small area of contact (dulled gray spot on tooth). This is the fundamental source of the problem with this unit, and one that Toyota has not come clean about. The friction unit assembled, showing the teeth engaged in the two grooves, is shown below.

In Toyota V.P. Jim Lentz’ appearance on the Today show, he claimed that issues with the friction arm go back to only October of 2009. Not so. According to a letter from Toyota to the NHTSA , in 2007 Toyota changed the plastic material used in the friction arm (from PA46 to PPS) in response to problems similar to those occurring now.

Furthermore, Toyota has been facing similar issues in Europe going back to 2008:

Toyota has been modifying the friction-arm (CTS) type assembly since 2007. Yet to our knowledge, the Denso design has never been implicated in any sticking-pedal issue, and has presumably been in production for some ten years. Why didn’t Toyota change over years ago?


Klevius answer: Because Toyota wanted to use US suppliers for more easy to do components on its biggest market outside Japan. This is in line with what happened to their Avensis model long time ago when its production started in UK. A Finnish car magazine (Tekniikan Maailma) made an extremely thorough comparison between Toyota cars made in Japan and same cars made in UK. The magazine even demounted the engines into its smallest parts before measurements and analysis. The results where striking and showed that the Japan made were clearly of better quality. However, the UK made Toyotas still easily outperformed the Germans and others!

Porsche is said to have the best quality of non-Japanese cars. Despite the fact that more expensive cars are easier to produce do to bigger profit margins. However, already in the 1990s Porsche's executive admitted that they can never achieve Japanese standard of quality. 


He was so right!


Porsche will replace the engines in all of its current model year 911 GT3 sports cars due to poor quality engines, and has told owners to stop driving the cars because they could catch fire, the Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) unit said on Tuesday.

Last month, Porsche said it was recalling all of the model year 2014 911 GT3 cars produced because of oil leaks, fire risk and engine break down.

The action was taken after Porsche said it investigated engine fires in which a loosened fastener caused oil to leak, which then caught fire.

Porsche is allegedly cooperating with U.S. regulators (why isn't Obama suing VW?!) in the recall and engine replacements, and is in touch with each customer who owns one of the affected vehicles.

The GT3 is the sportiest of the 16 variants of the Porsche 911 sold in the U.S. market but the real question is how this poor production quality has affected other Porsches as well - not to mention all VWs with their enormous DSG (gearbox) and other quality problems that makes them stall when you overtake, catch fire, accelerate unintentionally etc. VW's (incl. Audi) severe quality problems have been going on for years. Actually, VW is most possibly the worst road killer ever. It all started with Hitler's revenge on the after world, VW Beetle with an air cooled engine (that consumed like a V8 and never lasted for long) placed in the trunk (compare Porsche) and the gas tank placed behind the tiny front bumper, and the battery inside the car! So, although the front was soft enough, the gas shower you got in your face through the broken windscreen then continued to the battery behind you. But most people didn't bother anymore - with a steering rod penetrating their body.

The two-seat Porsche has a base price of about $131,000 (94,200 euros) in the United States and about 137,000 euros ($191,000) in Europe.



more car safety etc info:

Monday, March 03, 2014


Real quality cars are made by Shinto - crappy overpriced cars are bought by stupid islamofascists - who can't produce anything themselves!

Ever seen a super car - or rather a small high quality car, which is much harder to produce, the French need state (tax payers) support to produce their low quality cars - or some other high tech made in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Abu Dhabi etc  muslim countries?!

But why is Top Gear's Richard Hammond so stupid. Has he converted to islam*?! Why is he lying? Why isn't he even trying to deliver some relevant consumer info?

* Only in islamofascist places like Abu Dhabi (built by oil money from the West) where it's proposed that only stupid wealthy people should be alloved to drive, can you find so many stupid cars, buyers and drivers. And contrast this with poor countries, what do you see if not loads of old Japanese cars. To be poor forces you to chose quality!

Unlike May, who openly admits the stupidity of his beloved Italians, Hammond seems to desperately try to rescue Porsche from drowning in the sea of real facts. It's a pity cause otherwise he too seems to be such a lovable creature. Btw, Porsche was made as a "sporty" Beetle (aka "Hitler's revenge") and because of the weight over the rear wheels caused by its tail engine, it got better acceleration grip and became popular as a race car in the 1950s and 60s in the hands of skillful drivers. However, precisely because of the same reason it also became a death trap for less skillful drivers.

Klevius (who is extremely* normal - possibly except for his driving skills he got on dark icy roads in Finland with used Japanese cars at maximum speed without a single mishap for decades) has always considered the Top Gear guys lovely insane. However, if pressed Klevius has to admit that before Jeremy saw the light in Nissan GTR and Lexus LFA (and Honda S2000 - not sure about his view), he appeared only marginally more intelligent than his dummy in Madame Tussaud's cabinet. What disqualified Jeremy as a human being was when he long ago, missed to truly recognize the technological wonder under the hood of a Honda Civic Type R. Not a word about the unparalleled high reving engine and quality that made it the world's only small and cheap but fast hatchback that could be used as a normal car on low revs (without a turbo) while turning into a sports car when needed on high revs. And unlike Ferraris and other costly big low quality stupidities, the Honda engine technology, because of its small size, has to stand much more of high revs in use than a four litre Ferrari with hundreds of more horsepower. You can't possibly utilize a big engine at high revs as often as a small one. This was actually the whole idea: Fiat makes small low reving cars and Ferrari makes expensive big ones that no one can use to the max very often and if used on the track warranties are gone. Actually, you don't need a track to destroy a Ferrari it does it quite often just by itself.Very unlike Honda S2000 which already 1999 managed to produce a 9,000 rpm 251 hp 1997cc engine without a turbo that also lasted due to superior production technology.

* Klevius is like most people. Most people are Atheists. Most people have kids. Most people adhere to the thought about Human Rights that everyone should be seen as equal - even women. Most people aren't addicts. Most people aren't violent or bad to other people. Most people don't have extremist political etc. views (adhering to Human Rights isn't extremism). Most people aren't sexual predators. Most people don't have criminal records. Most people are social. Most people like football. Klevius ticks every box - that's why he's extremely normal.

However, rumor tells Jeremy may have participated in a heroic demonstration against stupid and racist Euro 5 emission rules which punish Type R precisely for its technological capacity to pollute less than its turbo charged rivals. If this is true Jeremy has the Human Right to be reassessed as a human being. Don't you think?


Japanese Shinto continues ruling Nurburgring/Germany

Nissan GTR Nismo is the fastest non-hybrid serious production car on Nurburgring


2-seater (Nissan GTR is 4-seater) Porsche 918 is a RWD w 4WD when battery allows it (Nissan is 4WD whenever needed) extremely low, 1,167 mm (Nissan GTR 1,372 mm) plug in hybrid which is just an overweight RWD car easily beaten by a GTR Nismo after the short period the battery lasts. And even w fully charged battery, performance is about the same. The only reason it could creep under 7 min was the electric motor torque (compare the Americans which took their torque from even bigger engines!

Porsche 918 will cost US$845,000 while the better quality and performing
2015 Nissan GTR Nismo will cost from $149,990 with a 3.8l V6, 600hp, 481lb/ft of torque. It currently holds the lap record for a mass production vehicle at Germany’s famous Nordschleife circuit with a time of 7:08.679. It has a top speed just short of 200mph, 0-60 in 2.6 and features technology perfected by the truly Japanese Nissan Nismo factory (i.e. not the same as ordinary Nissans but the one behind Infiniti's Formula One success etc).

Fastest laps reported at Nurburgring

6:57 (this car was built only for repairing Porsche's damaged reputation - it's a stupid heavy monstrosity in all other aspects)
Porsche 918 Spyder 4.6l V8 + Toyota hybrid motors and tech
Marc Lieb
4 September 2013
Equipped w 'Weissach Package' with Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres. Observed by Sport Auto.

7:08.69
Nissan GT-R Nismo (2015)
Michael Krumm
September 30, 2013
'Track Pack' with 255/40RF-20 run-flat Dunlop SP Sport Maxx GT 600 DSST tires.

7:12:13
Dodge Viper ACR (2010) with an 8l V8
Dominik Farnbacher
14 September 2011
SRT conducted test. Video and manufacturer confirmed. OEM Michelin Pilot Sport Cup R compound track DOT competition tires. TTAC article.

7:14.64
Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package
Akira Iida
31 August 2011
Lexus conducted test. Video confirmed. Stock LFA with "Nürburgring Package". OEM Bridgestone Potenza RE070 street tires. Additional Roll Cage was equipped

7:19.63
Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1 (2012) 7l V8
Jim Mero
9 June 2011
General Motors conducted test,[24] base specification car with optional track DOT competition tires (Michelin Pilot Sport Cup Zero Pressure), video confirmed.

7:24
Porsche 911 GT2 RS the fastest non-hybrid Porsche
Horst von Saurma
Sport Auto

7:24.22
Nissan GT-R (2011)
Toshio Suzuki
1 October 2010
Nissan conducted test.[29] Semi-wet conditions. Video confirmed. Best Motoring (12/2010).

7:24.3
Maserati MC12
Marc Basseng
August 2008
Evo Magazine conducted test

Best Ferrari comes way down:

7:25.7
Ferrari Enzo
Marc Basseng
August 2008
Evo Magazine conducted test



Car quality study 2014


Do note that Acura and Honda are the same - just like Audi and Volkswagen. Also note that while Mercedes sell expensive cars in US Honda does the opposite. Same with BMW compared to Subaru. With such a reading you'll soon realize that among luxus cars no one is even close to Lexus and that among ordinary cars Honda and Toyota are the by far best brands. And although Toyota may have a lead in selling hybrids Honda has always been ranked the greenest car producer overall in the world.



Compare this to:

2006 Consumer report: "After Lexus, Honda and Toyota, the brands rounding out the top ten for reliability were Mitsubishi, Subaru, Acura, Scion, Mercury, Mazda and Suzuki. The ten lowest-rated brands were Audi, Infiniti, Saturn, Lincoln, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Land Rover, Hummer and Porsche."

Porsche can't even produce a high tech small car and BMW's Mini is a quality disaster! Compare this to the extreme quality and built-in drivability and Honda high tech feeling (also compare Honda Asimo) in a Civic made for ordinary users! Not to mention high tech Honda hybrid and Fuel Cell cars. Honda also makes the cleanest diesel engines.



Honda has the world's best engines followed by Toyota - and Germans are among the worst

German cars 'among worst for engine failures'

Audi, BMW and VW ranked in the bottom 10 of a study into engine reliability

German-made cars are not as reliable as many believe, according to new research (Klevius comment: German cars have never been even close to Japanese best brands - but the myth is still on). Warranty Direct has studied its claims data to compile a list of the manufacturers with the most reliable engines - and Audi, BMW and Volkswagen all finished in the bottom 10 out of a total 36 makers.

In fact, the only firm whose cars had a worse engine failure rate than Audi was MG Rover. MINI wasn’t much better, finishing third from bottom, while its parent company BMW came seventh from bottom. And, despite its reputation for rock-solid reliability, Volkswagen came ninth from bottom.

Honda scooped the gold medal – the study found that just one in every 344 Honda engines failed, compared to one in every 27 Audi engines.



Honda has the world's best engines followed by Toyota - and Germans are among the worst

German cars 'among worst for engine failures'

Audi, BMW and VW ranked in the bottom 10 of a study into engine reliability

German-made cars are not as reliable as many believe, according to new research (Klevius comment: German cars have never been even close to Japanese best brands - but the myth is still on). Warranty Direct has studied its claims data to compile a list of the manufacturers with the most reliable engines - and Audi, BMW and Volkswagen all finished in the bottom 10 out of a total 36 makers.

In fact, the only firm whose cars had a worse engine failure rate than Audi was MG Rover. MINI wasn’t much better, finishing third from bottom, while its parent company BMW came seventh from bottom. Volkswagen came ninth from bottom.



Car safety study


According to Swedish Folksam's insurance statistics on car fires only one out of the 55 most dangerous cars in Sweden was Japanese, whereas 34 out of the 47 least dangerous cars were Japanese (with Toyota and Honda in top)!


Japanese high tech in context


Although Japanese technology, in its "relentless pursuit for perfection", always has created the world's best swords, and the Arabs usually got their inferior ones from others, it seems that the latter ones have been in much more frequent usage for submission throughout history than the former!

Klevius wrote about HAYABUSA’s space mission 2005 (mainly because almost no one else did): To bring back samples from an asteroid and investigate the mysteries of the birth of the solar system. This Japanese ultra technology, and world unique performance, isn't even reported in Sweden, so far (9/2005)!?

Today we know Hayabisa landed not only once but several times on the asteroid and then successfully delivered samples back to Earth. An accomplishment no other nation has succeeded with so far.




The phony Porsche 918 and what Richard Hammond forgot to tell you about it


Porsche 918 Spyder has a big V8 engine coupled to a Toyots hybrid technology similar to that used in a Lexus SUV and, according to the official figures, emits just 70g/km of CO2 while using just 3.0l/100km. So we are to believe it’s faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo, and more economical and emits less carbon than a Prius.

The NEDC (New European Driving Cycle) test on which these fanciful and gravely misleading official emission figures are based, unreasonably favors cars that use plugs as well as petrol, and with no realistic assessment of engine size, real time driving etc.

These official CO2 (and associated fuel usage) figures are used to promote cars. But the figures are deeply flawed.

The official test is done at warm temperatures (between 20 and 30deg C) and cold weather reduces the efficiency of the hybrids’ batteries while you’ll also need to use the electric-powered heater or, when it's hot, air conditioner, increasing electric energy consumption and reducing range.

Moreover, air conditioning, lights and heated windows are all turned off in the test cycle, the test is statistically biased to a high amount of urban driving, where hybrids perform better.

The official test is even less accurate for plug-in hybrids such as the Porsche 918 Spyder, because the CO2 emissions from power stations used to charge their batteries are ignored. On top of this there are numerous assumptions, each of which flatters a plug-in hybrid’s fuel economy. Why? Because European car makers were so much behind the Japanese and now when they finally bought in to the Japanese technology they chose the plug-in variant

The NEDC test assumes a plug-in hybrid starts each journey with a fully charged battery on which it can run electric-only until the charge is depleted. Once the battery is exhausted, it assumes you’ll go no further than 25km on petrol power before charging again. Just a few km more with a near five  litre V8 compared to a 1,6 litre Prius makes a huge difference, not to mention that people buying a Porsche don't drive like Prius drivers in the first place.

If you don’t charge up as regularly as the test assumes, or drive longer distances between recharging, fuel consumption (and CO2 emissions) will be much higher.

The normal hybrid Prius officially emits 89g/km of CO2 while the otherwise identical ‘Plug-in’ Prius emits 49g, and consumes 3.9 vs 2.1 (L/100km).

 Plug-in hybrid "supercars" (918 Spyder, new ‘Enzo’ Ferrari, McLaren P1 etc) are easily beaten in overall performance by, for example the much cheaper but qualitatively superior, Nissan GTR Nismo and Lexus LF-A/RC1.



Honda engine fun in a lousy old fashioned BMW

Do note that this is already an old story.



Here's a funny story abt some crazy Japanese street mechanics enlivening a tired BMW by the help of an old 1999 Honda S2000 STANDARD engine - 250 hp from 2 litre WITHOUT A TURBO more than a decade ago! Kiss my ass Ferrari). Note the BMW's rev meter's redline at 6000 plus, & how the lively Honda engine pushes the needle all the way round to the start position at zero! see the hilarious video!



Here's what Klevius wrote 2005:

Thursday, December 22, 2005


Shinto meets Islam - Civilization vs "killing & raping fields"

Update January 9, 2006 (American Daily): "Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Shintoism, and Confucianism are all religions of the world. Islam says it is a religion among world religions. It is not. It is a killing cult, nothing more. Islam demands that those who do not convert to Islam be slain or taken as slaves. There is no third option. With the genuine world religions, they tolerate those who do not agree with their tenets. They do not declare that those who do not agree with their dogmas be slain or taken as slaves."


Klevius comment: Look at those pathetic males (pathetic if they are racist/sexist pan-Arabic Islamist mosque-building oil-billionaires who trade in Islamic darkness in mosques, schools, universities, youth organizations etc?)! Too busy spending oil-money on technical wonders their own slave & oil-fuelled pan-Arabic/Islamic culture is uncapable of producing? Whereas Shinto (the world's oldest* religion) created the world's best high tech, Islam (the world's youngest "religion") created terror and Koran-brainwashed suicide-killers in the service of fascist and sexist pan-Arabism (i.e. true Islam)! For a better world in Darfur and elsewhere - bury Islam! Islam has caused more suffering than any other ideology (incl. Hitler's & Stalin's socialism/communism), yet it has always been excused (and surprisingly often by its own victims, i.e. the opposite compared to the "black"/"white" situation)!


This (Saud based OIC and its Saudi Sharia Fuhrer Iyad Madani) is islam today - and it's against the most basic Human Rights! No matter how many times you or your informants tell us islam is nice!






Saturday, August 17, 2013


How come that the best tech in the world comes from a non-muslim and non-Christian people?



Who moron bought Steinway?

And why do many churches, concert halls etc keep buying inferior grands?

Klevius has the answer - keep reading!


BBC's confused "piano expert" Chris Hopkins, didn't even mention the best brand when he named his favorite piano makers. Instead Chris Hopkins blabbed about Steinway and their top model D. And here comes the truly revealing part. When asked to motivate his opinion Chris Hopkins had nothing logical to say but instead admitted that the Steinway D's quality differed widely between individual pianos. But this devastating fact he then tried to turn positive in the old tiresome babbling about "hand made"* and "individuals", when the fact is that Steinway cannot produce the same quality pianos as Yamaha because of the same reason Ferrari, Porsche etc cannot produce the same quality as Lexus etc Japanese high tech cars.

* Compare extremely over-prized (part of the selling trick) handmade European watches - usually driven by some already outdated Japanese tech.

Kevin Higgins (about Yamaha CFX): I was pleasantly surprised by the warm round tone of each note. It was the best piano I have ever played. The action was easy and the keyboard had a nice textured feel that gave me confidence and security in my play. Much easier to play than the Steinway D. More clarity on the bottom end. This piano achieves real depth but with a better action. It's amazing.




Klevius: Not only that. Yamaha's superior and even production quality guarantees that you really get what you want.

Yamaha talked to hundreds of  the world’s most accomplished pianists, including those that did not play Yamaha pianos, and they asked them all what it was they most wanted to see in a concert instrument, and also what they hoped not to see.

Klevius comment: If they'd asked the buyers instead they'd likely got the answer that they hoped not to see the Yamaha brand name on the piano. Btw, have you noticed how TV cameras tend to be allergic to the Yamaha brand name while never missing an opportunity to show the Steinway brand name. Crypto-racism?!




The V10 engine in Lexus LFA is made by Yamaha.


Never buy a camera with a Zeiss lens



I got a cheap Sony bridge camera more than four years ago. I've taken thousands and thousands of pics and I've had it out almost every day in a variety of wet, sandy, dirty, hot and cold environments loose in the car or in some suspicious bags etc without any other protection. It has never failed (the only Japanese camera that has failed for me was a Panasonic with a Zeiss lens - which very soon lacked working both zooming and focusing while the rest of the camera works perfectly). I'm sure I'm not alone. Just check quality lists etc.

This photo was taken hand-held with my soon five year old cheap Sony HX1 recently.






No Audis at the top











It's not just Lexus - it's Japanese world leading quality


Ignorant people don't realize that Japanese quality is older than Germany is as a nation. The pre-history of Japanese quality goes deep into Shinto tradition. No dude, Shinto isn't a stupid "monotheist religion"!

There's a multitude of quality surveys out there from the last half of a century which could vary considerably due to methods etc. However, when summed up the Japanese stand out as overwhelmingly superior. And despite an equally long period of besserwissers telling us it won't last - it still lasts.

Just one example from a safety aspect:

Risk of car fires recorded by Sweden's biggest insurance company Folksam


Japanese brands on average face a far less risk of bursting into flames, than do European cars (see note above)! Especially Volvo and French cars, but also all the German brands, are much often involved in accidental or even spontaneous car fire. Although this is well in line with previous studies on TV-fires, which found that European brands were involved up to 50 times more often than similar Japanese and Korean brands, Volvo and others continue to talk safety! When a Swedish mother left her child for day care, she found her new Volvo X90 in spontanenous flames after having left it for a few minutes. Luckily she took her older child with her inside the day care center! These kinds of stories are very common. So next time you buy a car you may reconsider the safety issue, especially the one that concerns the real life situation where you want to use your car.

The most dangerous brands? BMW, VW & Peugeot plus, of course, perhaps the worst, Volvo
which, apart from burning very easily, has much more than the average of safety problems related to poor build quality.

According to Swedish Folksam's insurance statistics on car fires only one out of the 55 most dangerous cars in Sweden was Japanese, whereas 34 out of the 47 least dangerous cars were Japanese (with Toyota and Honda in top).










Just the tip of the VW/Audi iceberg of quality problems




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