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From: Tegger on 7 Feb 2010 09:53 jr92 <coachrose13(a)hotmail.com> wrote in news:c37f1896-29f5-406f-afd0-bca4507d2fcb(a)f15g2000yqe.googlegroups.com: > > > Maybe because the Japanese government fears the public might not do > so??????? > Who cares? Why is it so important that they buy our cars? We've got lots of other stuff to sell Japan besides cars. Canada last year, for instance, sold just a little more overall to Japan than Japan did to Canada. -- Tegger
From: Clive on 7 Feb 2010 10:29 In message <4b6aef1a$0$22841$ce5e7886(a)news-radius.ptd.net>, Mike Hunter <Mikehunt2(a)lycos.?.invalid> writes >If I were driving a Toyota today, I would drive with my left foot poised >over the brake pedal ;) Then, in a panic situation, you would depress both pedals but swear you only braked and that the car was trying to accelerate. -- Clive
From: Clive on 7 Feb 2010 11:08 In message <c37f1896-29f5-406f-afd0-bca4507d2fcb(a)f15g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, jr92 <coachrose13(a)hotmail.com> writes >The GOVERNMENT restricts the number of US imports sold in Japan. > >If there were "TRUE FREE TRADE", and the Japanese still didn't buy >from the USA, you might have a point. I believe there really is free trade, it's just that so many makes of car don't conform to the tight Japanese specification. -- Clive
From: Mike Hunter on 7 Feb 2010 12:23 That is probably true, Japan has to import all of its beef, leather, wood or paper products and a lot of it food stuffs "Tegger" <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in message news:Xns9D18649902DDEtegger(a)208.90.168.18... > jr92 <coachrose13(a)hotmail.com> wrote in > news:c37f1896-29f5-406f-afd0-bca4507d2fcb(a)f15g2000yqe.googlegroups.com: > > >> >> >> Maybe because the Japanese government fears the public might not do >> so??????? >> > > > > Who cares? Why is it so important that they buy our cars? > > We've got lots of other stuff to sell Japan besides cars. > > Canada last year, for instance, sold just a little more overall to Japan > than Japan did to Canada. > > > -- > Tegger >
From: Mike Hunter on 7 Feb 2010 12:27
Perhaps IF the driver in dumb enough to NOT take their right foot of the accelerator. But then again that could happen since they are continuing to drive their cars, that are know to have an uncontrolled acceleration problem that has let to 5.4 million of them to being recalled around the world. "Clive" <Clive(a)yewbank.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:vMsgEJOjxtbLFw6r(a)yewbank.demon.co.uk... > In message <4b6aef1a$0$22841$ce5e7886(a)news-radius.ptd.net>, Mike Hunter > <Mikehunt2(a)lycos.?.invalid> writes >>If I were driving a Toyota today, I would drive with my left foot poised >>over the brake pedal ;) > Then, in a panic situation, you would depress both pedals but swear you > only braked and that the car was trying to accelerate. > -- > Clive > |