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>reliability issues aside

That's the issue. They've reduced the average lifespan of Japmobiles from double the industry average to half. Dreadful horrifical droning rubber band tinboxes instead of precise yet cavemen simply enduring clockwork transmissoins. A gross misstep in automotive technology. The Koreans and Americans are already moving back towards conventional AT but the Japanese are still going all in on CVT. Nissan/Jatco now has a Mexican CEO who is trying to bring Nissan & Mitsubishi back as cheap comfortable ultra reliable cars with conventional automatics but the damage is done. Japanese cars will be known as unreliable and overcomplicated for the remainder of the decade like German cars were in the last decade.