Ram 2500 CTD in Africa

valhalla360 wrote:

RobertRyan wrote:

Valhalla360 wrote:
you needed to repair often.

I suspect part of it is there are some who suggest American trucks can't hold up well in challenging 3rd world conditions but it's really more of a marketing thing. Most people in these countries go Toyota because it's the dominant brand so finding parts is easier...not that Toyota is any more durable. 

No Toyota's are unbreakable in these sort of conditions. Reason why the parts are avaiable in Africa, because of that reliability
US and European vehicles do not share that reliabilty. Other Japanese vehicles have similar very good reliability, that is why you see Japanese vehicles primarily roaming around Africa .
It is very very common.

You do realize, you rewrote my comment to say something the original didn't say...and then you criticized the result.

But honestly, not much difference in reliability. Toyota simply dominated the market before the US brands got in and then they couldn't break in...kind of like Toyota is a distant also ran in N. America mostly because the market is dominated by the Big 3 more than any actual quality issue (that and Toyota couldn't get it through their heads, Americans want a big V8 truck for the first 30yr they tried to enter the market.)

Of course, it's funny, that we had to stop for repairs twice with the Land Cruiser we had last February in Tanzania...so "unbreakable" doesn't really hold up (not that I'm suggesting they are bad vehicles)

He does that because he wants to say US sucks at something. You are correct about the Toyota dominating the market simply because they became a major player in those markets before anyone else did and other brands could not break through. I was watching a video below about the Land Cruiser and how Toyota purposely used it as their strategy when they started selling vehicles in other markets. This strategy worked well for them.

Why The Toyota Land Cruiser Is Disappearing From America