re: Is Yamaha the corporate gold standard?

Another corporation that makes a wide variety of products in Yamaha's back yard is Mitsubishi. They don't have the same reputation for quality as Yamaha, or Honda with their engines (especially since they merged their automotive divisions under the Renault/Nissan umbrella). But they make good stuff. From home air-conditioning units to CNC controls to military and space systems. They are even in the banking and food industries in Japan.

The Japanese really are an industrious group of people.

I have a zero turn mower with a Yamaha 26 HP engine. Will never need a new one.

Those 300 HPDI’s would run, but popped so many power heads. They were just too powerful to sustain long runs.

Best 4 wheeler ever made. Have a 1997 4-trax 300 - still runs fine. That model was the ATV version of the Massey Ferguson 135. Can't kill em.

They also designed and manufactured propellers for the Mitsubishi Zero.

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Best 4 wheeler ever made.

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Engine, yes, but they can be killed and die often due to the horrible design of the rear differential. Water gets into the brake drum which then seeps into the differential and kills it. There's a ton of folks out there that are swapping rear ends from old Honda 350D's and 250 Big Red 3 wheelers into their 300's due to the issue with the diff. I have a 2000 300 and it runs like a sewing machine, but I am on my 2nd differential. And for all of you saying Honda 4 wheelers are the gold standard, find me one whose drum brakes actually work. They're out there, but rare. Those brakes have been a problem that started way back in the 3 wheeler era and has never been resolved.

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Yamaha, Honda and Kawasaki—all Japanese—are three of the best

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Don't forget Suzuki.

Also known for high quality/reliability: Hitachi.


Automotive electronics
Power steering systems
Electric Powertrain Systems
Engine Management Systems
Construction machinery
Hydraulic Excavators
Forestry Equipment
Mechanical & Hydraulic Cranes
Mining Dump Trucks
Crawler Dump trucks
Farm implements
Wheel Loaders
Military vehicles
Satellite image processing systems
Social Infrastructure security systems
Electric propulsion technology
Electro-mechanical systems (including robotics)
Advanced Combat Infantry Equipment
Air conditioning equipment
Hitachi Magic Wand (your wife has one hidden somewhere)
Optical disc drives
Consumer appliances (refrigerators, washing machines, etc.)
Particle therapy equipment
Cell culture equipment
Specialty steels
Wires and cables
ATMs
Servers
Enterprise storage systems
Virtual Storage Platform
IoT sensors
Telecommunications equipment
Nuclear and hydrogen power generation systems
Power Grids
Elevators
Escalators
Industrial machinery and plants
Railway vehicles and systems (including bullet trains)


Fun fact: most Japanese manufacturing companies are named after their founders, but Hitachi is named after the province in which it was born.

Its amazing what a couple nuclear bombs can do to a country. Maybe if we nuked Seattle Boeing would make decent airplanes again. Added bones of getting rid of a couple million liberal voters.

I’ve had some pretty awesome Yamaha sleds (snowmobiles) up here in northern Ohio