Time to dust off those keyboards and slap on your tin foil hats!
It was another typical evening after a long workday — just me in the garage, sipping a cold beer and marveling at the brilliance of Japanese engineering, when something caught my eye: 'Made in Thailand' stamped on the sidewall of my tire. The stock tire sidewall. I thought, “Hold on, I swear I saw a sticker somewhere that proudly proclaimed ‘100% of parts are from Japan.’” Naturally, I set out to find this elusive sticker, but it was nowhere to be found. Is this the Mandela Effect at work? A brain fart? A conspiracy? Was I hypnotized by the dealership salespeople?
I scoured all the paperwork and even examined the Monroney window sticker under a magnifying glass — still no luck. Then, like a sudden bolt of clarity, I discovered a photo of the sticker in my gallery. Aha! Turns out, I’m not losing my mind. The tires and stock wheels are indeed not from Japan (the wheels, as it turns out, hail from... wait for it... China!).
Now, the real questions emerge: Is the sticker lying? Does the Land Cruiser contain 150% worth of parts (100% from Japan and 50% from elsewhere)? And perhaps the most important question of all: Does a part become "Japanese" if it goes on vacation in Japan?
It was another typical evening after a long workday — just me in the garage, sipping a cold beer and marveling at the brilliance of Japanese engineering, when something caught my eye: 'Made in Thailand' stamped on the sidewall of my tire. The stock tire sidewall. I thought, “Hold on, I swear I saw a sticker somewhere that proudly proclaimed ‘100% of parts are from Japan.’” Naturally, I set out to find this elusive sticker, but it was nowhere to be found. Is this the Mandela Effect at work? A brain fart? A conspiracy? Was I hypnotized by the dealership salespeople?
I scoured all the paperwork and even examined the Monroney window sticker under a magnifying glass — still no luck. Then, like a sudden bolt of clarity, I discovered a photo of the sticker in my gallery. Aha! Turns out, I’m not losing my mind. The tires and stock wheels are indeed not from Japan (the wheels, as it turns out, hail from... wait for it... China!).
Now, the real questions emerge: Is the sticker lying? Does the Land Cruiser contain 150% worth of parts (100% from Japan and 50% from elsewhere)? And perhaps the most important question of all: Does a part become "Japanese" if it goes on vacation in Japan?
