Toyota North America Dealer’s Associaction

where the official slogan is

abandon all hope, ye who enter here

Internationally speaking, a car that has “trouble” going up hills is far more acceptable elsewhere than it is in North America.

Once you’re over 15 years old more or less you start to find that the only new parts you can buy anymore are mechanical components, and everything else is either coming off other cars or being refurbished. I’m vague here because pretense is important- sometimes a car keeps getting made somewhere else and it forms an extended market, sometimes a single part has been in 2-12 different models and it never goes out of production, sometimes a single model year has an exclusive part and if yours goes out, the vehicle is functionally totaled.