What are the impacts or effects of the rise of the Japanese automobile industry in Detroit?

I hope people can tell me or the impacts possible, and detailed and elaborate, like the answers I need for my task. U If you use any references such as websites, etc, please quote for me too! thank you very much!

They showed how bad American cars were built. American cars would last 80,000 miles and no one thought much about it. So Toyota made a cheap car running for 200,000 miles with very few repairs. Suddenly .. the impossible is possible

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