Japan's cars : Younger Overall
Check out these statistics on the average age of cars in various countries:
- Japan = 8.72 Years (2021)
- EU = 11.5 years (2021)
- USA = 12.1 years (2021)
Japan's cars: Lower Annual KM
These figures below show the number of kilometers a typical car is driven on average each year:
- Japan = 6,017 KM (2020)
- EU = 12,000 KM (2018)
- USA = 14,263 KM (2021)
A typical car in Japan is way ahead of cars in the US or EU
Just multiply the average age of these cars by the average number kilometers they are driven every year, and you will see a huge gap between your representative car from Japan and those from these other first world places.
So a typical car in Japan will have less than half the mileage on the clock as a typical car in the US! That's a huge difference.
- Japan = 70,308KM
- EU = 121,500 KM
- USA = 162,204 KM
On top of that, Japanese people are, frankly, obsessive about caring for their cars.
They religiously obey the manufacturers’ full service schedule and have the work done by the dealership. Even lazy car owners are forced against their will to keep their cars in good shape by Japan’s rigorous Shaken road-worthiness test every couple of years.
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