By Robert Farago
February 16, 2009
01 Jun 1991 — After flooding the American market with economy cars in the late 1970s and 1980s, the Japanese bested the Germans in the 1990s luxury-car market via the Lexus. This 1992 Lexus SC-400 is emblematic of Japan’s inroads. The key advantage of the Lexus was its incredible reliability, which the more persnickety German cars had never matched despite high levels of luxury and craftsmanship. — Image by © Car Culture/Corbis
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