Corrosion!

Probably the number one reason to buy from Japan!

There are many reasons to buy an imported car from Japan.
The average mileage is extraordinarily, and genuinely low.
The way the Japanese look after their vehicles is verging on obsessive.
Their equivalent of the MOT, the Shaken is so rigorous, the vehicles are in superb condition.
But the number one reason is that they don’t salt their roads.
Technically this isn’t strictly true, as in some regions, in the north, a limited amount of salt is used , but in general salt doesn’t have widespread use.
Basically cars are made of metal, predominately steel, and steel contains the element Iron, or Fe.
Even car’s like Land Rovers, which are famously made from aluminium ‘so they don’t rust’ are built on a frame and chassis of steel. At [...]