2015 Yaris

[tk-421]

Originally Posted by why?

suppliers will be different for different plants on the opposite side of the planet. It would kill any incentives to even have the plant on the other side of the planet if this was not true.

Suppliers may be different, but the quality standards are the same. Otherwise they would stop sourcing their parts from said factory and go somewhere else. What is the point of selling 12 million cars if you have to recall them a year later due to low quality materials?

Yes, the final plant is automated, but the final plant just assembles the car, it does not build every single little piece that goes into the car. That comes from all over who knows where, and absolutely will be different.

Please tell me where you get this information from. Everywhere I read about this subject tells me the opposite is true. People are being pushed out in favor of robots on every stage of the manufacturing process for a reason. If a serious fault is found (such as the stuck pedal or ignition key issues) it is because of the DESIGN of said parts, and not because it was put together wrong, which brings us back to human error being the most likely cause.

Oh, and guess where the designers come from... That's right, many of them come from Japan and Germany!