Pete is correct you aren’t allowed to import a car to the US that is 25 years or newer. This was to battle the cheaper pricing of Japanese vehicles back in the late 80s and early 90s.
@crazymike78839 ай бұрын
Don't forget they also did it to prevent people going around the EPAs mandates on emission control devices.
@00mazone9 ай бұрын
Not true. You can import any car to the U.S. as long as that model has passed the safety standards and has the correct emissions. Plus you have to pay the correct taxes. If it's 25 years old you don't have to worry about the safety standards but depending on what state you register it in it may need to have the correct emissions. Any car that was never sold in the U.S. will have to wait till 25 years old unless you want to do all the crash testing yourself and that is very expensive but it has been done.
@gracehartinger92909 ай бұрын
This confused me bc wouldn’t the steering wheel be on the wrong side? I get it for collector’s cars but like why would you bother importing a new Honda civic or whatever
@jonmc65739 ай бұрын
@@gracehartinger9290 the location of the steering wheel is irrelevant.
@DeathlySkys9 ай бұрын
My understanding is that if you have a really good friend in Canada to hold the car for a year, there's a loophole in which you can then import them!
@slendercraft9 ай бұрын
Pete is correct on the US restricting imports on cars less than 25 years old. This is due to bill H.R.2628 - Imported Vehicle Safety Compliance Act of 1988. In the late 80s European car manufacturers (mainly Mercedes) and car dealerships lobbied for it since people would import grey market cars from other countries for cheaper than buying directly from US dealerships thanks to the US dollar being so much stronger than other currencies at the time thus causing them to lose out on the money they would have been making on local sales. They had the law pushed through under the guise that the imported cars didn't all meet US safety and emissions regulations even though nobody had a problem with it up to that point and there weren't laws preventing it, it only suddenly became a problem once the manufacturers and dealerships started making a fuss about it. Once a car hits 25 years old to the exact month of being manufactured it is exempt from Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and can legally be imported, for example right now any car up to November 1998 can be imported without any issues but a car from December 1998 is still illegal until December 1st. Only exception is California which requires relatively expensive modifications to meet their stricter emissions requirements. You can theoretically import a newer car if it's identical to something that is also sold locally in the US and the foreign model still meets all the same safety standards as the US model and either meets US emissions standards or is modified to meet them. For instance a car sold in both the US and Canada is very likely to be either exactly the same or close enough you can in somewhat easily make the changes to meet the standards. You wouldn't really save much time or money (if any) compared to just buying locally doing this though, especially after paperwork, taxes, customs/import fees, and any potentially required changes. You can also technically import cars newer than 25 years by importing multiple of them after requesting permission under the requirement of you doing all the modification necessary to make them meet current US regulations and then doing all the required emissions and crash testing to prove the modifications are actually good enough but it's not worth all the money to do that and destroy cars in the process. There was a company in the early 2000s named Motorex that did this with R32 Nissan Skylines and then decided to start breaking the law by also starting to import other cars like R33s and R34s and stop doing the required modifications all together. This led to them eventually getting caught and raided with all the cars at their shop being seized, any car that was already sold and in the possession of any of their customers were given a special document giving those specific cars an exemption from the laws and making them the only legally available cars of their kind at the time. You can't even import a car newer than 25 years simply to keep in storage until it becomes legal, U.S Customs and Border Protection will seize the car at the port after determining that it's not 25 years old and send it off to be crushed. Whenever a car does manage to slip through being illegaly imported they're usually then (even more illegaly) registered as a completely different car and it pretty much becomes a cat and mouse game until the car eventually gets discovered and flagged, after which it will be hunted down by U.S Customs and Border Protection who will seize it and eventually send it off to the crusher. You can find a bunch of videos and photos of them crushing things like Minis, Land Rovers, Skylines, etc. saying it's because the cars are "hazardous". There are entire companies in Japan (and I'd imagine other countries as well) that offer storage for cars until they hit 25 years old for a monthly fee and some export companies also offer a similar service. There's a very short list of newer/rare cars that are exceptions that can be imported if they are declared significant enough (if they're deemed historically or technologically important) that can be imported under Show or Display, but you're not legally allowed to drive any of those cars for anything but maintenence and upkeep purposes and for no more than a total of 2,500 miles a year. The only reason this very restricted exemption even exists because Bill Gates pushed hard for it after he ordered a Porsche 959 which was seized as contraband and put in storage at the Port of San Francisco by Customs, it wasn't until after Show or Display was passed 13 years after the car was seized that they released it into his custody. Canada has similar import laws on cars but it's 15 years insted of 25.
@someguy91759 ай бұрын
that's baffling. oof.
@whyisthisathingnow...9 ай бұрын
I guess other countries should put that same restriction on US cars. What an anti-consumer/competitiveness law that is...
@00mazone9 ай бұрын
You can import newer cars as long as they pass the U.S. safety and emissions standards but why would you? You would be better off just buying one that's already here.
@pleasedontwatchthese95939 ай бұрын
@whyisthisathingnow... in China your not allowed to import any cars unless they are built in China
@muhammadsyafiq10049 ай бұрын
@@whyisthisathingnow... they did. Or at the very least they increase the price of imported car through tax that it make it not worth it to buy an import.
@Mattsta20109 ай бұрын
I lived in China for 9 years, leaving this year. Yes, loads of Chinese EV cars and a few Teslas on the road in China. Went back to the UK for a few months, didn't see a single Chinese EV, quite a few Japanese and Korean Hybrids though. Now living in Southern Vietnam, no Chinese cars at all. All Toyota, Mazda and Hyundai, the only EV is the local Vinfast.
@noseboop43549 ай бұрын
That's because most chinese EV are junk. Even the russians who are desperate for cars following the sanctions tried chinese EV and loudly complained of their poor quality. You know your quality is bad if russians complain about it.
@MrNajibrazak9 ай бұрын
十七年, 长沙 to be precise prior to covid in the mfg sector. the golden era is over. it wasnt truly gold, it was an elaborate scam looking back.
@andyfu96518 ай бұрын
Chinese EV is hiding under other existing brands, such as MG, Volvo, Polestar, or Chevrolet. BTW, Vinfast is assembled using Chinese parts in Vietnam.
@paul26098 ай бұрын
@@andyfu9651 Even then I rarely or not seen any MG, Volvo, Polestar or Chevrolet EVs in the west. Just Teslas and Fords. I may have seen one Polestar maybe like 5 months ago but then see at least a Tesla every day.
@Greenforrest73425 ай бұрын
なぜ?ヨーロッパもEV推しだったのに。
@laurencshouse9 ай бұрын
I feel like Chris would be horrified to know that I wake up at around 5:45 AM during the work week. 😂
@dayla86349 ай бұрын
My family lived in Japan when I was younger. When we moved back to the states, my dad exported a brand new van back, but that was in the late 80s and my dad was military.
@lilycat23829 ай бұрын
Thanks for reading out my email ❤ I couldn't find anywhere online about meeting up after the onsen when separated by gender, so that's why my question was so damn specific haha I will just stand and scream "I'M FINISHED!" as per your advice 😂
@stirfriedemu9 ай бұрын
There's actually a real solution to this that people in Japan have found, and it's SOOO CUTE! Assuming you're in an onsen that you can hear from one side to the other, there's a code that Japanese people use, using the wooden or plastic tubs available to wash: When you're finished, you pick up one of these tubs, and tap it TWICE against the tiled floors. Your partner hears this, and if they're ready, they'll tab their tub against the tiled floors ONCE. If they're not ready yet and want to stay a bit longer, they'll tap their tub against the floor THREE times. It's so cool seeing Japanese couples - especially elderly couples - do this!
@alisonrobbins11269 ай бұрын
When you were talking about this Sato and that Sato, Ugly Sato, VP Sato...in my mind I was totally picturing The Smurfs 😂
@Tiikuri9 ай бұрын
I used to be enthusiastic about electric cars, but I no longer think the future is going to be fully electric. We've all seen the problems with electric vehicles. It makes so much more sense to buy a hybrid right now. I think Toyota made the right choice by not going with the electric hype, and they will be the big winner in the future.
@JasSchMin9 ай бұрын
I love it when Chris does a Sharla accent impersonation, cracks me up...i wonder what Sharla thinks abourrit !
@liaminwales7 ай бұрын
Back in the late 90's and early 2000's phones from japan looked like the future, I never understood why they where not sold world wide. They did contact swapping via IR, that's still a pain today.
@OllamhDrab9 ай бұрын
Oh, the 25 year rule is actually about things like US spec for emissions and headlights and safety equipment and all that stuff that needs to be tested/adapted for the US market, it's just that cars over 25 years and certain specified 'collector' cars are exempt. And, oh, I can't seem to recall the specifics but JVC got bought out/merged with another company or two. (Maybe Panasonic? Toshiba? (I always used to swear by JVC and Panasonic for stuff. I haven't actually been shopping for much for a while, thus couldn't tell you if the products are as good now.)
@Into.resting-guy9 ай бұрын
Really informative and entertaining episode, like always. But this time round the settings on Chris's microphone were off, he sounded like he was on the toilet the whole podcast.
@duskstation9 ай бұрын
sounds more like his microphone wasnt being recorded at all and this is the cameras audio as a backup
@JulianLinkAcosta9 ай бұрын
Chris is looking extra affable lately, good job on the health journey the results are really showing! 🙌🏽
@chroma-agogo9 ай бұрын
In the late 70s early 80s Japan was actually known for making knock offs of American guitars that were BETTER than the originals
@andybeard32139 ай бұрын
Didn't realise Pete lives in Leigh 😄 Probably walked past you in the Peterboat without realising.
@petedonaldson26989 ай бұрын
Covered in cockle soup!😂
@Stanimir79 ай бұрын
Tesla's build quality has greatly improved the last couple of years, the panel gaps that Pete spoke of are no longer an issue.
@spacespartaart9 ай бұрын
Interesting you talk about the car industry, I always wondered if you would ever do a video about Toyota-shi near Nagoya. They basically renamed it to Toyota as the city is pretty a Toyota Corporation Community/Economy homeland
@FlexMentalloLives9 ай бұрын
Hey Chris & Pete, Brad here - an Aussie abroad in LA. Question - a few of my favorite themed bars I found in Japan in days of yore were Redrum - Shining themed bar in Shirakawa City, American Beauty - cothemed around the band and the movie in Osaka, and Sex Machine - a James Brown themed izakaya alao in Osaka. Do either of you guys have places you’ve found with a cool or wtf theme from a foreign influence? Thanks and have a good one!
@ukmaxi9 ай бұрын
JVC still exists, it just merged with Kenwood in 2011 and they still make TVs funnily enough. Of course, camcorders are a thing of the past generally, so, they do not make anything like that anymore.
@janusmcgee89099 ай бұрын
Nice otamatone collection Pete
@lShishkaBerryl9 ай бұрын
I've got over 476,000 kms on a 08 Honda Fit in Nova Scotia Canada, home of sea salt and road salt. I'll never buy another brand of vehicle.
@user-rh3wi7tj2w9 ай бұрын
Chris you should do a show on the export of Japanese used cars. Russia, Africa, Canada, US, Australia, Asia etc all have lots of used Japanese exports. The Auction facilities in Japan are absolutely huge. (contact Derek at Pacific Coast JDM)
@mosmarb9 ай бұрын
Germany, China, Japan were the top 3 car exporters in 2022, the USA just behind Mexico in 5th.
@romroger9 ай бұрын
I think the japanese car industry is making the right bet with Hydrogen cars. The technology is safer than electric cars during crash (no instant burning). It is much less polluting to manufacture and it will push for more power plant (nuclear) to produce the hydrogen. So western countries (and japan, korea) will be more independent power wise. I can also foresee western countries being happy to push hydrogen since china as gone on all in on electric. These are very geopolitical matters
@jonmc65739 ай бұрын
As of nuclear can’t generate electricity? Nuclear is NOT clean. The west is extremely anti hydrogen because hydrogen is NOT a renewable resource.
@LOLBTLOLBT9 ай бұрын
Lol Don't think u know hydrogen
@jonmc65739 ай бұрын
@@LOLBTLOLBT don’t think you know physics. Hydrogen power requires extracting it some another form. Hydro and solar don’t.
@romroger9 ай бұрын
@@LOLBTLOLBT Its H
@MrNajibrazak9 ай бұрын
@@LOLBTLOLBT bet u never seen a Chinese EV car on fire. there were 3000 cases in China from EV fires just last year alone.
@TravelJennie9 ай бұрын
When I lived in Japan from 2000-2004, my air force friend dismantled a Nissan Skyline and managed to ship it home when he was deployed back to the US.
@Quazlor9 ай бұрын
Pete's happier in his old studio
@NessaGhouliful9 ай бұрын
I'm living for the Sharla impressions 🤣🤣🤣 Not even close, but is? 🤣🤣🤣🖤🖤🖤 ps Give him a good kick Sharla ☠️☠️☠️
@cristobal50969 ай бұрын
Actually thought Chris' impression of Sharla was pretty good
@Pew70707 ай бұрын
I’m getting strong Phil Collins vibes every time I see your head profile. And thinking about it even your voice is also similar to his, Pete. Related?
@ttakenaka20019 ай бұрын
Chris san, About Japanese car exporting to US, if the car was right side drivers seat cars (and all domestic market cars made and sold in Japan,) you have to wait 25 years. After 25 years old, you can sale and drive in US whatever as is… But Japanese maker made car for US market is already fit with American standards, you can export and selling with out much problems except high import tax at US custom. Australia has similar import law. You have to wait 30 years to import and driving around US made “wrong side drivers seat cars”
@Ellery-USA9 ай бұрын
EV isn't the solution yet due to infrastructures and definitely not the greenest as people thought when you dive into it. I'd be interested in the Toyota Hydrogen engine if it ever comes to fruition with also the same infrastructure problems.
@Matixmer9 ай бұрын
There are not enough resources like cobalt etc. on earth to build a comparable amount of EVs.
@tomhoots9 ай бұрын
A few EV bits: Hydrogen can power "zero emission" vehicles as well as any other technology (somewhat), but the technology to produce hydrogen as fuel is very expensive at this point. Most people won't find a "Hydrogen fueling station" anywhere near them. And the prices are mind-boggling. Toyota usually leases hydrogen vehicles, and provides a generous amount of hydrogen fill-ups with them. It's "not ready for prime time" at this point. Norway is a whole different story from any other area on this planet. Norway has the highest per-capita income on the planet. Over a number of years, Norway started charging ever-increasing taxes and fees for "combustion" vehicles -- along with VAT, there were taxes for vehicle weight, horsepower, emissions, you name it. I'm not from Norway, and I've read some conflicting things, but apparently you could pay around three times the vehicle's price in taxes and fees. Think of a $50,000 vehicle, with $150,000 in taxes in fees, a total of $200,000. But then Norway decided to waive ALL of those taxes and fees if you bought an electric vehicle. So, of course, people RAN out and bought like $100,000 vehicles for half the price of a vehicle worth $50,000. "That's how you get your population to adopt electric vehicles." Norway uses vehicle taxes and fees to pay for a wide range of government programs, and guess what? "Government revenue decreased substantially." Early this year (2023), Norway started adding some of those fees onto electric vehicles, and now you read about people going back to combustion vehicles, most likely hybrids. But that's the story there. Finally, my view about Toyota is that they have a history of "selling cars." They're not very interested in making cars that won't sell in great volumes. And for most vehicle manufacturers, they simply can't get their hands on enough batteries and/or battery-making materials to make very many battery electric vehicles. Toyota's stance is that they can make dozens of hybrid vehicles with the battery materials that would be needed for ONE full battery electric vehicle. So, they have been making -- and selling -- every hybrid vehicle they can possibly manufacture. In the last full year -- 2022 -- worldwide, Toyota sold FIVE (5) of the top TEN (10) consumer vehicle models on the planet. Models like RAV4, Corolla, Camry, but also Hilux -- the inexpensive pickup truck they sell in less developed countries, and mostly don't sell in the most developed countries at all. So, I get the impression that Toyota is doing EXACTLY what they plan to be doing, at any given time.
@weirdslime2629 ай бұрын
There are, or were, at this point, supposedly entire warehouses full of Nissan Skylines and other sought over JDM cars, just sitting around until the 25-years from date of manufacture US import ban on them expired. Already bought and paid for, but otherwise just sitting there.
@lyndylou7529 ай бұрын
Toyota were crowing about hydrogen that didn't happen recently announced about electric Toyota even after Lexus having electric cars, in this case Japan is so far behind China etc dont know if they have left their run too late
@BilingualElf9 ай бұрын
Have you ever heard of the swarms of yukimushi in Hokkaido/ would you be interested in doing a video on it?
@Commonsenseisnotcommon89 ай бұрын
It’s so funny that they are Burger King’s all around the world in so many different countries. But here in America, nobody eats there. The same for KFC I honestly do not see how they stay in business. t’s funny, too, because foreigners see those American companies and probably think Americans eat that. But we don’t. But we do eat the hell out of some McDonald’s lol and Chick-fil-A. Do they have a Chick-fil-A in Japan yet?
@Sh1tfaceMagee-db3pxАй бұрын
The nissan leaf with an air source heat pump was a technical marvel, tesla did not put them in the model 3 until the 2021 model refresh, we would have gone for a new leaf (have the original) if not for the rapid charge problem (rapid gate) we instead bought a tesla 3 which is the biggest piece of shit gone wrong in existence
@krishnam19 ай бұрын
Norway has provided MASSIVE subsidy (wonderful transfer of tax money to rich car buyers) to push EVs.
@barubary44779 ай бұрын
Did y'all see the story about the missing Japanese KitKats ordered by Bokksu? It was in the New York Times this week and it's a wild ride of a tale.
@sorenman19 ай бұрын
interesting
@bilditup19 ай бұрын
So that’s the guy eh. Seems pretty shady ngl
@everythingisawesome239 ай бұрын
Didnt know Chris had a podcast, here to stay !!
@user-jx1cg4dl5w9 ай бұрын
People really like hating on Miyazaki nowadays huh.
@fauzirahman32859 ай бұрын
I know the age limit on cars thing is an Australian thing, Any car older than one built in 1989, sure, anything manufactured after that year, there's a whole thing you gotta go through to import older cars. Bit strange when there's no longer a mass manufacturing industry in Australia these days.
@dotsmassacre9 ай бұрын
Nice 'one eyed man' reference.
@TwoCentsOnTour9 ай бұрын
You'd probably have to change the steering wheel to the other side to drive a Japanese used car in the States? 😅 NZ is full of used Japanese cars because we drive on the same side of the road. Chinese cars, less common
@pokyboss42819 ай бұрын
Nope. You can find various grey market Japanese sports cars in the US (I've mostly seen Skylines) and of course, our postal delivery vans have right side drive.
@TwoCentsOnTour9 ай бұрын
@@pokyboss4281 ah wow, do they need permits? In NZ you can see the odd left hand drive Chevy or something, but it's rare - the paperwork isn't worth it for most people
@unishot6199 ай бұрын
@@TwoCentsOnTour there's no permits/regulations for RHD cars in the US just the 25 year rule + additional emissions/safety requirements in some states. do you need permits to operate LHDs in NZ?
@TwoCentsOnTour9 ай бұрын
@@unishot619 100% man - most LHD vehicles can't be legally registered - although there's paperwork for people who are super keen (I think the process puts most people off trying)
@Robin_Goodfellow9 ай бұрын
I would love a Subaru EV, they're great cars for winter where I live
@CosmykTheDolfyn9 ай бұрын
I live in Ecuador, and I would say new Chinese cars outnumber new Japanese cars quite a bit here, and that's a change that's only happened in the past 10 years. It's just how cheap Great Wall trucks are, plus how cheap Chery cars are. No EVs here except in the Galapagos islands, and then they are Kias.
@crishhari59039 ай бұрын
Plaza Accord and the Japanese financial crash along side Asian financial crisis in the 1990s destroyed the Japanese confidence and risk taking appetite. US literally forced them to make their currency so expensive that their prefect economic model didn't work at all.
@ninbendoyt32039 ай бұрын
Hi
@yagooatthegoat9 ай бұрын
I come from a middle income class when they mock you for not buying a toyota car 😂
@Mryodamiles9 ай бұрын
When I was growing up in Thailand, you will be hard press to find non-Japanese car in normal household (you will find American and European luxury car among car enthusiast or rich household). I went back to thailand recently and noticed an insane increase of Chinese car (MG and Ora Funky Cat). They are super aggressive at marketing and popup all over the country in less than 5 years.
@rodolfo70779 ай бұрын
Aggressive? 😂 just selling cheaper options, cry
@zam0239 ай бұрын
@@rodolfo7077 That is what aggressive means in the business world. That is also how China took over the drone market, by flooding it with cheap drones, causing a lot of western drone manufacturers to close shop.
@jumpnjack8089 ай бұрын
100% correct 25 year old to import a car into the US
@i6power309 ай бұрын
Actually China is the biggest car export country in the world, EV or gas cars. Japan is 2nd now.
@Big_Blue_Monkey9 ай бұрын
China does sell more cars than any other country but the majority are domestic sales. I've just come back from China the first trip since 2020 and there are more Chinese EV's on the road than before.
@deltasource569 ай бұрын
Chris is also killing the calorie count
@hex1c9 ай бұрын
Even if China was to run them by with brands and sales, few brands in the world is as safe as Japanese cars. We all know "made in Japan" stands for the highest quality.
@custardo9 ай бұрын
Unfortunately the film by Myazakaki's son, Tales From Earthsea, isn't of the same calibre as other Ghibli works (outside of the animation, which is typically beautiful). Even the writer of the source material, Ursula K. Le Guin, didn't like movie.
@robh88149 ай бұрын
Sony was slow to react to change. They lived on the Trenton Screens for years & spent money over here in the UK on "Sony Centres" but Sony lost their edge. Granted the Sony Tuners & Mini Disc players were good but once again like Betamax then Sony was on the wrong side of a format that won. I do remember seeing some where that it was the Playstation that "SAVED" Sony & the film business to a certain extent. It took them a while to refocus so to speak & now the Camera market is where they do alot of business as well as sensors in Phones. The days of Sony Trinitron TV's & the 80's long gone. These days for TV's its LG, Samsung & Panasonic. A friend has a 4K Toshiba from Costco for £350 & its a cracking TV. The names of TDK/JVC/Toshiba are a shell of what they use to be but Ive got a few Toshiba USB 3 External HDD's & are brilliant.
@Omni04049 ай бұрын
Here I am trying to eat healthy and I have to listen to these guys talk about Burger King for 10 minutes
@halcyonandon9 ай бұрын
#faxmachine Hi Chris and Pete, I recently read about how Japan had its hottest November day on record of 27.5C. With predictions for a hot autumn and less snowfall this winter. Do you think Japan is adapting fast enough to climate change? Is it something the government takes seriously? As a country that already endures hot and humid summers is this something that concerns you about your future living there? Have you noticed any changes in your 10 years living there? It is something that concerns me when thinking about potentially moving there. Thanks!
@fancehdonneh15847 ай бұрын
I know this is 2 months old but there wasn't much autumn in Japan this time (last year 2023) and went straight to winter. Japan was affected by El nino so weather was predicted to be much hotter in 2023. Fastforward, it's in the middle of January 2024 and weather is pretty normal now, warm and sometimes too cold in Tokyo. Also, there's still an abundant of snow (snowstorm as well) in the west and north of Japan.
@dotsmassacre9 ай бұрын
I boycotted McDonalds about two years ago... and switched over to Burger King or the Australian equivalent, Hungry Jacks... because they were just phoning it in... and I mean, it was hard but apparently the persistence is starting to catch on with folks... everywhere... or at least, the internet would have you believe. That people are now also boycotting McDonalds, in other places... for whatever reason they have...
@another_bites_the_crust_pizza9 ай бұрын
Im sure you boycotting McDonald's did a lot..........
@waleedabbas49969 ай бұрын
@@another_bites_the_crust_pizza His actions weren't meant to bankrupt McDonalds buddy. It's still better than going to a chain that's below par.
@dotsmassacre9 ай бұрын
@@another_bites_the_crust_pizza see, I would agree but all indications are the same store, has actually seen a significant decline in business... so, I mean, I guess they just really sucked... whatever anyways... that's just my POV.
@Aohalm9 ай бұрын
I can’t wait for Pete’s car to arrive now that he’s talked about it for weeks!
@logiclee19 ай бұрын
I still like Japanese quality. Sonly Xperia 1 V and Denon X4800h purchased this year but they are expensive and niche products. Japan lagging behind Korean manufacturers.
@MarilynMalkovich9 ай бұрын
Chris, this is the most Japanese podcast title I've ever seen. You’ve perfectly assimilated.
@lynetteray21469 ай бұрын
I would not buy a Chinese car. Given the issues with China and the potential for conflict with the West. I would think that would be a bad idea.
@mr.m26599 ай бұрын
The issues are nothing
@Greg-om2hb9 ай бұрын
“Kee-yo-oh”?
@user-rh3wi7tj2w9 ай бұрын
canada is 15 years
@austinfallen9 ай бұрын
Nijo castle is cool. Nijo jinya is cooler
@RyzawaVT9 ай бұрын
Doesn't surprise me if they have surpassed Japan, China is kinda going crazy on all technological fronts as of late. Also Pete is right about the difficulty importing cars from Japan, this is basically as Chris said, American car companies are STILL scared of Japanese cars taking over the road even more than they have so far. A lot of the big name American companies put a lot of limitations on Japanese imports so they didn't lose out on any more money, gotta love capitalism!
@MrNajibrazak9 ай бұрын
u need to keep urself updated on the recent events. their deceit is more effective than what they are truly capable of. i worked in Changsha in semicon for 17 years prior to covid. China is propaganda, never facts. learn to verify what u are being told if it is facts or propaganda.
@fetabrown9 ай бұрын
こんばんは carburettor Chris and piston Pete, with the car show coming up, have you heard any cultural stereotypes around different sorts of cars in Japan? Here we have stereotypes around my s’y MPVs, small cars for the elderly, white van man, and Audi drivers. Have you heard of any sort of similar cultural motoring stereotypes there? Ta for keeping me company on my (grey van woman) drives around Blighty.
@ShaneRob939 ай бұрын
Hayao Miyazaki did not say Goro's work was "shit", he said (roughly) 'my son is still a boy, he isn't ready yet'. Which, if you've seen the work, is definitely an accurate assessment. I think Hayao could definitely be a better father if he supported his son more, and he himself has admitted he isn't a good father in that regard, he just can't bring himself to not call a spade a spade.
@user-kt9ul5kq6x9 ай бұрын
Except Goro’s films is rather shit.
@yohannessulistyo40259 ай бұрын
It is quite surprising on how westerners reacted to that event. In Asia - where family relations runs deep, people who are a bit westernised are very concerned about being seen as "getting through from familial connections" - all despite things are not that different in the US (where nepotism is quite rampant as well). Hayao simply tried to give Goro some fair and square criticism, giving him some "face" - he tried his best to criticise him, the same way he probably might do to his non-blood-related apprentice. Sometimes it appears harsh, but then again Hayao is a very particular man, and I think we expect nothing less from him.
@ShaneRob939 ай бұрын
@@yohannessulistyo4025 From everything I've seen, the way Hayao criticized his son is the same way he criticizes himself (he is maybe even harsher on himself) and the same way he criticizes his colleagues. I don't particularly think it's a good thing that he is so harsh, he is very much a pessimist, but that is who he is as a person and it seems many people perceive him as this way only to his son which just isn't true.
@robertlaidlaw45929 ай бұрын
@@yohannessulistyo4025 dude if thats fair and square critasisum id hate to see what he says to people he doent like that wasnt critasisum that was dissaproval, it was rude. you can give critasisum without being rude he isnt a critic he should view it in the art form it is presented, he totaly disregarded the merrits of making such a film, not everything has to be a maserpiece thats not a good way to view work and life, that just unhealthy obsesstion, could jsut say i dont think you have reached the right level with this film, i am impressed you were able to make such a film, would be an easy resolution. even critics would have given some prase, he was only being critical, especially to someone who is living in your shadow already, you shoulden't wildly praise someone because they cant learn but making any film is an achievement. verry few people could do it.
@neverletmego64149 ай бұрын
I read the title as "Is Japan’s Car Industry Losing to Chris" at first...imma see myself out
@KinnyRiddle9 ай бұрын
Regarding Pete's recalling of the awkward Hayao Miyazaki incident about him commenting on how disgusting zombie animation is. While that did indeed happen, it wasn't his son that was the target of his ire. His son had nothing to do with that animation team whose zombie animation annoyed Miyazaki. Pete might have confused that incident with another one, that happened during the premiere of his son's movie, where after the movie started, he just walked out of the theatre and just decided to have a smoke, saying the movie's not even worth watching. What a dick move.
@Debbie-henri7 ай бұрын
Stay away from the sugar, Chris. There's already a lot of sugar creeping into lots of products that shouldn't have any in the ingredients. So you're probably already eating a lot of sugar without even knowing it. Yoyoing between weight loss and weight gain messes with metabolism (as I well know), and there's more diabetes 2 appearing in younger people now. Less food challenges, more travelling this year.
@Ryuko-T729 ай бұрын
Imma be real I'm never buying chinese car
@TacComControl9 ай бұрын
Some corrections. 1: Miyazaki has been an absentee father to his son for basically his whole life, so his son really, really wanted to appeal to him through animation. If I recall, it was the Earthsea movie, which... wasn't brilliant, but whatever. Anyway, Miyazaki, fully knowing this, left mid-movie and said "it's good that he's experimenting with animation direction. He should stop". Which is somehow worse than just saying it was shit. 2: The procedural animation wasn't at his studio. It was at a university. They were kids. They were writing a program that would, through repeated trial and error, basically teach an amorphous blob-person to walk. Miyazaki didn't take kindly to it because he knows people with severe mobility issues and took offense and Kinda railed into the kids a bit. Okay, a lot.
@TacComControl9 ай бұрын
Also regarding guitars... The "Counterfeit" guitars Japan was making, which caused American companies to sue them, even though there really wasn't anything counterfeit about them... They were known for having an AMAZING quality by comparison, and for being much cheaper. In no small part because America's electric guitar makers approached making a guitar from the perspective of a guitar manufacturer who learned solderpoint from a correspondence course, whereas Japan approached making electric guitars as making an electronic device. So the connections were much cleaner, the parts were built to a higher standard, all of it. Even just good solderpoint can significantly change the quality of equipment, especially sound equipment. The difference between Sennheiser quality in a microphone and shitty Amazon knockoffs is often just whether the solderpoint is clean or bodgy.
@TacComControl9 ай бұрын
Also regarding Cameras... Canon got their Start by making a cheap knockoff version of a Leica, which was... not good. At all. And they've kinda been that way ever since, selling entirely on brand recognition. They did some interesting things with lenses, but managed to sort of step on their own toes when they stopped bothering to try. Meanwhile, Matsushita, a company that got their Start by saying "We're going to always remember to contribute to the community" in 1913, took an absolute shit on Canon's front lawn when they put out the GH4, which became very popular among youtubers very quickly because it produced high quality 4k video with a very smooth and easy to use platform behind it, while their Nocticron lenses blew the competition away in major ways, even if they were a bit of a sleeper. And then Sony came forward and took an even Bigger shit on Canon's lawn by pushing sensor tech forward in a huge way(ironically by copying some ideas from Olympus, with IBIS) to the point that most everyone is using Sony sensors now, and Sony's lenses are steadily making Canon's L lens line look like children's toys. All of those companies are Japanese, mind you. Pretty much the only big name camera manufacturers outside of Japan that move the needle at all are Arri, out of Munich(they make cameras for major movie studios), Phaseone, out of Denmark(they make a stills camera that is... ridiculous. And I want one), and Red, who are themselves being slowly supplanted as people realize that buying a Red back is cheap, but buying all the parts you need to make it usable is stupidly over the top, especially when you can get better output from a much cheaper platform elsewhere. People are slowly coming to the realization that a company that charges 1300 dollars for an HDMI adaptor MIGHT not be on the up and up. And yes. I didn't mention Nikon, I know. Nikon is too busy sitting in a corner eating paste.
@EVmanjapan9 ай бұрын
Quick correction for the Japan Mobility Show segment! I went there, and most of full EVs that were at the show were from BYD (China) or Mercedes (Germany). All the Japanese EVs were vague concepts that won’t even be starting to to be thought about maybe going into production till at least 2025 or later. All the Japanese cars were normal petrol cars or hybrids, no different from 2008. Japan is HOPELESSLY behind, and the whole show should have been a swift kick in the gonads for the Japanese car industry!
@beefueater45869 ай бұрын
evs isn't a sustainable design due to it needing a lot of rare earth metals. To push for it to be the replacement for the old gas engine cars is artificial as fuck. Besides when your a country who has mastered efficient public transportation. Cars become a luxury, not a necessity.
@zam0239 ай бұрын
@@beefueater4586 Agreed. To add, China is also the largest producer of rare earth metals and therefore has majority control over that market. Going all EV means you will be a hostage to the whims of the Chinese Communist Party. Remember how they stopped supplying rare earth metals to Japan because Japan blocked them from getting advanced chip technology. Japan learned their lesson not to rely on China.
@epicparkourfail9 ай бұрын
#faxmachine Here is a random question! Do people wear cloaks in the winter in Japan? Do you think that people would give me weird looks if I wore one during a trip as part of my warmth layers?
@jonmc65739 ай бұрын
Nobody wears cloaks anywhere at any time
@aidangallagher87039 ай бұрын
Also it wouldn't matter - no one in the world is going to be upset with for wearing a cloak. If anything you'd stand out in a positive way, which always happens when you wear something uncommon. People will stare, as they do everywhere.
@jonmc65739 ай бұрын
@@aidangallagher8703 not a positive way. People stare because they’re asking themselves what the hellmyoure wearing and why.
@aidangallagher87039 ай бұрын
@@jonmc6573 I guess it depends on the person's personality and confidence. If I feel good I look good, and the attention is nice from my experiences. My dad wore a cloak and whilst unusual it was interesting and cool to see something different.
@jonmc65739 ай бұрын
@@aidangallagher8703 their personality and confidence is irrelevant. People across the street staring at you will think it’s strange and unusual no matter what. You might feel it’s positive attention, but it isn’t.
@NuliTV9 ай бұрын
The start of this episode feels like its been recorded at 10 fps its so choppy, had to swap around to another monitor and no, even at 280hz its choppy as hell. Did your cameras have a seizure?
@MarxIsDeadAndRotting9 ай бұрын
Japan is smart and doesn't make cheap garbage with components obtained from slave labor. They know that EVs are a bridge to nowhere.
@mr.m26599 ай бұрын
Slave labour?
@Stephen-up3sd9 ай бұрын
Yeah - roughly a million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps@@mr.m2659
@MarxIsDeadAndRotting9 ай бұрын
@@mr.m2659 Yeah, China uses slave labor. I'm not a Brit so I don't spell it "labour".
@mr.m26599 ай бұрын
@MarxIsDeadAndRotting care to share any proof beyond "trust me bro"?
@mr.m26599 ай бұрын
@@MarxIsDeadAndRotting I mean, most of their shit is automated, even their farming in the likes of Xinjiang, biggest purchasers of John Deer equipment in the world...or perhaps you're referring to the lithium? That's mostly mined in Australia except for a select few places that don't exactly have slaves but the wage the workers get is close enough to be considered slavery
@raziswickid9 ай бұрын
Hey Chris, are you gonna make a different facial expression for every podcast thumbnail? That'd be wickid!!
@letiziacastiglione24929 ай бұрын
Yup you definitely can’t export a car from Japan to the US until it’s at least 25 years old.
@iamsheep9 ай бұрын
Well it's already lost. China became the largest exporter in 5 years with many companies that didn't even exist then. Pete is wrong about the car quality in China. The cars are much better quality than Teslas in terms of fit and finish, also offer more features.
@jormungand729 ай бұрын
I used to love Burger King. even though about 15 years ago I chipped a tooth when one of their burgers had a bone in it. Then 2 years ago I broke a tooth in half when a chicken nugget had a rib bone in it... I complained to them about it, and they said I had no proof, even though I had pictures of the rib bone in a half chewed nugget with the rest of the meal in the photo.. why would I stage something like that... the least they could have done was apologize. But all they did was accuse me of lying and tell me to get lost. So I will never eat Burger King again. which is fine, my town has its own local burger joint that is 1000x better. All locally grown ingredients including the beef, and the burgers and milkshake are genuinely the best I have ever had.
@thodgy9 ай бұрын
Thanks for making me youtube famous. Your time will come when the ojiisan come for you.
@warrenbooth21039 ай бұрын
What will kill the Chinese cars is the poor quality control.
@93hothead9 ай бұрын
EV is not great and its going to cause more problems in the long-term
@salade999 ай бұрын
Until recently had I underestimated China. Now it's one of the most developed countries in terms of technology.
@mr.m26599 ай бұрын
That's what happens when you go all in on STEM fields
@Stephen-up3sd9 ай бұрын
Or steal other countries technological research@@mr.m2659
@pleasedontwatchthese95939 ай бұрын
The Chinese cars dont pass the emissions and crash safety which is why we don't have them in the usa
@dameneko9 ай бұрын
Don't really trust Chinese EVs -- especially if Hong Kongers don't drive them. They've probably seen the many incidents of those cars catching on fire.
@GreatWhiteWeasel9 ай бұрын
Japan is Tiny with zero natural resources… whole video explained.
@GrumblingPete9 ай бұрын
Do we follow the same comment structure on youtube as your podcast fans? I think we should it's kinda cute and inoffensive and as they are basically the 'senpai' in your demographic, "listener" as opposed to"viewer", it should be tradition, a simple nod. ( I think :/) ... So anyway.. Dear... oh.. just remembered you were confused about 'Cleanly Chris' (Chesse-head LOL) and 'Pristine (Zombie King) Pete' ... dude was going for a theme, I got it..and as far as the average youtube comment goes, mixing alliteration AND a theme.. TWO layers.. I thought it was quite clever and found it a worthwhile pun. So harsh for poor dude.. :( (not 'serious' criticism, just a giggle). So, anyway, anyway...Dear Critiquing Chris and Pedantic Pete. :P, as much as I'm thoroughly entertained by you both, and (soz, Pete), 'particularly' Chris's A Broad in Japan.. (a stunningly and so very competently produced 'Everything you ever wanted to know about Japan, but couldn't be heard asking over the morning birds')..This is the meat of my comment,....... POOR LASSIE.. an entirely COMPETENT question and you roasted the wee soul. SCENARIO: "Hey babe, so the Japan holiday were going on.. I want to spend as much time with you as I possibly can, but I won't see you in the onsens , male female split. (unhappy face.) What will we do???? "Umm.. there are loads of onsens where were going, email every single one of them and ask how other couples manage .. that admittedly must surely be fairly common occurrence . .......Orrrrr mail that guy we both like.. the dude that does Japan,...yeah, just like Debbie (Ed - oh, I'm showing my age with that one)... the one everyone calls fat but isn't really and is just a big guy and it can't be doing great for his self image and people should just get a life.. yeah, yeah that dude. Yeah, we like him. A FEW HOURS LATER. "Hey babe, I emailed Chris.. (Sqweee).. so excited, I wonder if It'll be read.." De-de-de-DAAAAAAA-da-da-da-DAA-da de-DAA-da de-DAA-da (Ed- this took me a STUPID amount of time to get right, Das and Dums and at one point, Rums) CHRIS AND PETE: "Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast, we have a ROFLCOPTER for you tonight." Guys, Guys, Guys, all you had to say was "A good percentage of onsens are separated simply by a wooden fence, you can sit at either side and BE with each other... Awwww. :) Just ask before hand." I have to admit, if I was going to Japan with my GF, It's the kinda question I'd be curious at. Anyways..... Your stuff is great, tremendously entertaining, with a spot-on sense of humour for the average Brit, which the rest of the world seems finally able to come to appreciate.....Which begs a question......When you refer to an exchange rate, why do you ALWAYS exchange in to $ instead of £? I recognise the American ego with the whole pre-emptive destiny BS, but why are you pandering to it? Not everything has to be centred around them, even though they are the dumbest mofos on the face of the earth, it's not really entirely their fault that they have absolutely no sense of the wider world because their gov't has limited their education and understanding to the point that .... "Who HE?", "Not Know.. BADDDDDDD". Their isolationism and xenophobia of anything not theirs (mob rule) has become a problem.. Further support of their pov is not healthy for the planet... So ...'maybe'.. don't step on your own naturalisation to pander to someone else because, as you are a Brit, I'd guarantee that you'd lose more Brits with your preference to pander to them than you would have new yank viewers courtesy of giving them what they think they want. Contrary to my now drunken ramblings, the U.S people (with a brain) do actually seek a world view other than their own anal and gov't proscribed restrictively educated one one. They don't need you and other tubers to constantly stoop to their level, reinforcing and making it seem as if their culture and economy are the only ones, or even the most important (which is simply currently installed dogma), to exist on the planet. Confusing them to the same point with all of your acquiescence as their own gov't does with their propaganda. PEOPLE, cater to your own and let US catch up with YOU, regardless of who the 'us' and 'you' are... that's more than half the fun with cultures. Charity begins at home. Excuse the beer.
@arthurg78949 ай бұрын
17 Likes wtf???
@kuronekomema9 ай бұрын
Imagine losing to a country that makes cars like ticking time bombs. with high-level corruption...
@noseboop43549 ай бұрын
Pretty easy to win when said country acquired tons of european car companies, copied their technology, then heavily subsidized their cars to sell them cheap while bribing EU officials to look the other way.
@yeetplyr84458 ай бұрын
I mean Japanese cars are honestly dog water nowadays so they're easy to compete against. The fact that nearly every release is an overpriced EV doesn't help either.
@Queltamas9 ай бұрын
If you watch videos from The China Show you'll see just how badly China is lying about its auto industry, not going to spoil it for you.
@zeening9 ай бұрын
the outro song is a banger... is that custom for you guys or is it copyright free? if it's the latter any chance i could get the name of it?:D
@rainyday23159 ай бұрын
Burger Kings lunch and dinner menu is better than McDonalds, but McDonalds breakfast is better.