See How Your Is Was Made!

[Robertb]

An interesting video I stumbled across. Not sure what the wooden doll bit was all about...

[M0nty]

Interesting!

I wonder what happens to them after they leave the factory to introduce those rattles. Perhaps a team of Ninja Honda engineers sneak aboard the ships :-)

[Robertb]

I thought that was somewhat ironic too! I suppose the issue is in the design rather than the build...

[Roger Bill]

As part of my work I've had cause to visit many engineering factories in the UK, Germany and USA in a wide range of industries including automotive, motor sport, defence and electronics. Admittedly it's a few years since I've visited any car factories but in comparison to those that I did (which will remain nameless) the Lexus IS factory and production techniques shown in this video seem superb. I've the greatest respect for Japanese standards of quality and, therefore, over the past 25 years I've always owned Japanese cars.

It is incredibly difficult to make products with the very low failure rates that we now take for granted. If bankers, estate agents, journalists, politicians, et al adhered to similar rigorous quality standards the world would surely be a better place!