Right hand drive. Myth or reality? — Toyota Carina, 1.6 liter, 1989
The right hand drive has its advantages and disadvantages. A big misconception is that the right hand drive is the cause of a large number of accidents on the roads. Statistics say quite the opposite - drivers who drive right-hand drive cars rarely get into accidents.
The disadvantages of the right hand drive are as follows:
Difficulty overtaking a car on a road with one lane in each direction. That is why the right steering wheel is a minus for those who are constantly in a hurry somewhere. However, for a simple motorist, right-hand drive is a common occurrence;
The second drawback of the right-hand drive is the inability to carry people, earning money on it, that is, to “bombâ€. This is simply inconvenient, since the passenger needs to run out onto the roadway to sit on the left, or sits behind the driver. Agree that at night it will not be very pleasant for the latter, so there were few “bombs†on right-hand drive cars.
The right hand drive has more pluses than minuses:
Japanese quality (in Russia, most of the right-hand drive cars are Japanese, respectively, and the quality is Japanese);
Convenience on the part of the driver, since it is convenient for him to exit on the right, of course, it is more difficult for passengers here, but let's remember who sits behind the wheel longer: the passenger or the driver? Of course, the driver, and, consequently, the advantage in the face;
Perhaps the most important benefit is the very fact of owning a right-hand drive car, while drivers feel that they are driving differently than most other drivers. We can say that right-hand drive cars are a way to increase self-esteem and self-affirmation.
"Right-hand drive cars are incomparable with Europeans or with new cars in terms of the richness of their equipment"
I completely agree.
Do not compare the quality of materials and assembly European Corolla and Japanese Corolla.
Bobrat
why do you suddenly disagree? if you mean by Europeans all sorts of bemeve, and Mercedes, then you need to look at the Japs of the same classes, and I’ll tell you that compared to the crown, for example, with the new one, bemeve 7 nervously smokes somewhere incomprehensibly where, but in the 90s, with Mercedes es class competed with a car called Infiniti ku45, she is also a Nissan president, but there are things there that even Euromobiles never dreamed of, for example, an electric drive for a separate rear sofa, or there 4x (!) Zone climate control, so here. And the new European cars are generally super poor, and the Japanese still put everything they can into even the most so-so equipment. If you don’t take all sorts of wooden cars there, like Nissan Sunny and kings in the cheapest bundles…
and this applies to which generation of 45x? If for the F50, then the 220th eske, these options are also not unusual)
And all this because of the location of the steering wheel! He is not "ours" and that's it.
It's not a problem to get used to though.
Bobrat
why do you suddenly disagree? if you mean by Europeans all sorts of bemeve, and Mercedes, then you need to look at the Japs of the same classes, and I’ll tell you that compared to the crown, for example, with the new one, bemeve 7 nervously smokes somewhere incomprehensibly where, but in the 90s, with Mercedes es class competed with a car called Infiniti ku45, she is also a Nissan president, but there are things there that even Euromobiles never dreamed of, for example, an electric drive for a separate rear sofa, or there 4x (!) Zone climate control, so here. And the new European cars are generally super poor, and the Japanese still put everything they can into even the most so-so equipment. If you don’t take all sorts of wooden cars there, like Nissan Sunny and kings in the cheapest bundles…
No, I didn't mean that. We take 2 identical cars (European and Japanese).
So the European will cost much more!
And we won’t argue about brand preferences, everyone has their own!
OOO I dealt with Nissan President 96 onwards.
I don't even know how to describe it, there are just no words.
Proezdil on it a little less than 1 year.
You won’t even believe that the car is from the 96s. Comfort in it over the edge!
And how her engine growls ... You just need to feel it on your own skin
why do you suddenly disagree? if you mean by Europeans all sorts of bemeve, and Mercedes, then you need to look at the Japs of the same classes, and I’ll tell you that compared to the crown, for example, with the new one, bemeve 7 nervously smokes somewhere incomprehensibly where, but in the 90s, with Mercedes es class competed with a car called Infiniti ku45, she is also a Nissan president, but there are things there that even Euromobiles never dreamed of, for example, an electric drive for a separate rear sofa, or there 4x (!) Zone climate control, so here. And the new European cars are generally super poor, and the Japanese still put everything they can into even the most so-so equipment. If you don’t take all sorts of wooden cars there, like Nissan Sunny and kings in the cheapest bundles…
"Right-hand drive cars are incomparable in terms of the richness of their equipment either with Europeans or with new cars."
I do not agree with this.
About "increasing self-esteem and self-assertion" killed on the spot!
And as for the Japanese quality - this is a well-known fact, no one will ever argue ... That's just the BIGgest minus - they are going to ban the resale of these cars ... They say that soon it will not be possible to resell a "right-handed" car ... But for now they are talking about it - run to buy " eternal" cars! (Once they called it "Moskvich": an eternal car - you bought it, and then you sell it to hell ... In my phrase, I first of all meant quality ...)
everyone praises his swamp) I did not find any significant advantages in front of the left-hand drive. Quality, left-hand drive, not even assembled in Japan, is also of high quality. Going to the right is certainly a plus, but in tight perpendicular parking lots this is a minus, because other drivers subconsciously get up so that there would be more space on the left side of the car. Well, I won’t say anything about self-esteem, I don’t know) But here I don’t run into the right steering wheel, but rather I defend the left one)
I think there is nothing dangerous in the right steering wheel, the only thing is to prohibit the right-handed cars from driving on two-lane highways, they protrude too much. As for the rest, why not?
Normal left-handed Japanese women often simply do not have right-handed analogues that were produced only for JDM. This is also a clear plus - the rarity of cars in the central part of Russia. And about the quality in vain you’re so ... But just going out into the snow in the winter is clearly not a plus, I’m pretty tired of this over the winter =) And so ... I’ll take the next one I love with the steering wheel in the glove compartment. With charisma
Much can be said on this subject. That a purebred Japanese woman is of the best quality is a MYTH. And let's not talk about the advantages of right-handers, they are not. A person buying a right-handed one sees only one plus - the price. My opinion is this: there was simply not enough money for a normal left-handed Japanese woman. I have a lot of respect for Japanese women, I like them, but not with the steering wheel in the glove compartment.
PS: This has nothing to do with the classic Japanese sports cars that were made just for their market. These cars are really COOL.
I will say this. I myself have been driving right-hand drive for 7 years since obtaining the rights. I make overtaking by low-level driving along the very edge of the roadside, which left-hand drive riders do not know how to do. Thus, I can see what is happening in front of the car in front. Convinced of the safety of overtaking, I emerge on the left and overtake. In terms of general maneuvering, right-hand drive is easier to park at the curb, less risk of beating the rims. The roadside and sidewalks are better visible, which is safe for pedestrians. On the right steering wheel it is easier to go around the pits. I speak as a person who knows how to ride equally well on both rudders.
Well, the quality. My car is almost 25 years old. I have not yet seen a single left-hand drive Japanese woman with such a non-rotten age. Yes, and JDM most often complete sets are richer and more comfortable.