Quote Originally Posted by Rodder View Post
I’m sure I heard that Domestic Japanese cars are built to lower spec for this reason. Thinner body panels etc
Would need a good source for that, otherwise it feels like something a UK dealer might have said when trying to sell domestic models :D

(Japan climate is sub-tropical, summers tropically humid, winters very wet, typhoons so numerous they only have numbers not names, cars are parked outside... thinner body panels would not be a great idea...)