The Toyota 4Runner is still built in Japan at the legendary Tahara factory in Aichi. It has a reputation for the best quality in the world, but how did Toyota achieve that with the 4Runner? Automotive Engineer David Chao who has visited the Tahara factory 8 times explains how the 4Runner is actually built there and why it has a worldclass quality inside and out. The Lexus GX, along with most of other Lexus models, are also built at the Tahara factory. This is Part 1 of the series "Why 4Runner is the best built vehicle in the world."

Automotive Press is owned and managed by David Koichi Chao, a global expert in the field of automotive evaluation, consulting, and strategy. David is known around the world as an authentic specialist of Lean Thinking or Toyota Production System. Born and raised in Japan, David has an engineering degree from University of British Columbia and postgraduate education from MIT and Harvard Business School in Boston.