I think this is case of shills jumping in to discredit Honda, but anyone who has manufacturing experience can examine both engines and come away with the fact the Honda is higher quality in every aspect right from the machining to the assembly.
Not to mention in back to back test the Honda makes more power throughout the rpm range.
Cost was not a consideration but compare apples to apples the purchase price of either engine is within $10 of each other.
Country of origin means nothing when you are talking about manufacturers of Hondas caliber.
Don't tell me Japland is so hot these days when Toylet is recalling their cars left and right.
Its an outright racial slur to say that japanese workers are better than thais. Its not about the worker, its about design and process control, in a modern manufacturing plant the associates on the plant only perform a small portion of the overall picture, if the process control in place is working correctly anyone can duplicate the quality achieved in any other plant and Honda acheives that.
In a low performance application such as MBs the Honda and R/S will satisfy most people,the RS falls short of my high performance applications and my opinion is reflected by this.