How America’s Engines Became Inferior to Japan’s

Coming out of the Second World War, America was the undisputed engine power of the world. It had, after all, built the machines that won it. But somewhere in the decades since, that stopped being true. An assumption took hold: anything with a Japanese name was better — and above all, the engines. The ones that started. The ones that ran past two hundred thousand miles without complaint. Across almost every category with an engine inside it, the Japanese now dominate. Almost every category. Because there are two engines they never took. One where America still holds its own. One where America remains the undisputed king of the world to this day. I'll come back to those two — one of them will surprise you. Tell me in the comments which you think they are. Keep them in mind, because the story of how America lost the rest starts with a single devastating list.