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Ojai, California Kosaku Yamada has been picking Camry nits for ten years now. As chief engineer of America’s most popular car, he is bedeviled by more than just the obvious things that give Japanese engineers sleepless nights.

The obvious: “All the nuts-and-bolts considerations so neatly arranged on the left side of the brain were obvious,” he said of this fifth-generation Camry. “The Camry would need to be bigger, quieter, cleaner, and more powerful, with better handling, steering, and fuel economy and an even higher level of crashworthiness. Logic,” he added, “dictated an all-new chassis.”

Automotive journalists have grown used to this sort of obsessiveness from the Japanese, who already build cars with the fewest defects, the highest levels of consumer satisfaction, and the best resale values. It’s why we’ve called the Camry the best car built in America. It’s why Honda sells more Accords than Ford does Tauruses and Chevy does Impalas. It’s what makes Nissan’s new high-performance Altima a car to watch closely. It’s why Toyota grabbed the number three car-sales spot from Chrysler, racking up some of its best sales months in history while the domestics crashed and burned.

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