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From: Mike Hunter on 7 Feb 2010 12:33 (Cross postings deleted, automatically) Actually the Japs are smarter than Americans in that regard. The Japs make a point of buying products made by their own manufactures when ever they can to help their own economy. Americans not so much. They will buy anything made in low wage countries that do not have all of the government regulations that make it so expensive to do business in the USA. Americans do not seem to mind that when the buy imports that they are sending the jobs of their children and grand children off shore as well "Clive" <Clive(a)yewbank.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:rYkhBHQCWubLFwrl(a)yewbank.demon.co.uk... > 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: Stewart on 7 Feb 2010 15:26 "Tegger" <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in message news:Xns9D178C1E7E91Dtegger(a)208.90.168.18... > "Stewart" <gortamus(a)gmail.com> wrote in > news:hkk62t$ag0$1(a)news.eternal- > september.org: > > >>> >> >> Dare we say Class Action Lawsuit? Everyone affected will get $2500 >> off their next new Toyota purchase, > > > > More likely you'll just get a coupon for $10 off your next oil > change. > > > >> and the lawyer firm will get millions..... >> > > > That's a certainty. That's what mass tort is for. > > > -- > Tegger > A fair and equitable distribution for the customers troubles. Now where did that Microsoft coupon go......
From: billzz on 7 Feb 2010 16:09 On Feb 7, 8:08 am, Clive <Cl...(a)yewbank.demon.co.uk> wrote: > In message > <c37f1896-29f5-406f-afd0-bca4507d2...(a)f15g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, > jr92 <coachros...(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 I'm new here, having just bought our first Honda Pilot Touring, so joined the group. We lived all over Europe, and I've been to Japan, Korea and, unfortunately, Vietnam. My observation was that they drive German cars in Germany, French cars in France, Italian...well you get it... mostly because they really do have a sense of national identity. In places where, like Cairo, there is no "national" car then they go for - like the family we've known for years - Honda because they thought enough to put in a dealership, with trained mechanics. Otherwise every block has a "shade tree" mechanic for the old cars that they do have. Most countries have tax policies (like taxing engine displacement - in Germany) that are a de facto limitation on imports. Other places, like Switzerland, have a huge import as well as annual road usage tax, which obviates against big American cars. And I talked to a Swiss about selling my 455 Pontiac Bonneville (they want the engine for boats) and he outlined what it would cost. So there are a lot of factors, mostly taxes, and annual costs, not to mention the lack of service. We always bought a VW for delivery in Germany, when we knew we were going, just because of the service network. I toured an E-Type Jaguar across Europe, and had an atlas with the few service places outlined. Well, the grandkids just arrived, so off to get cookies!
From: Clive on 7 Feb 2010 16:21 In message <4b6ef671$0$23000$ce5e7886(a)news-radius.ptd.net>, Mike Hunter <Mikehunt2(a)lycos.?.invalid> writes >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. Why do you assume that a sticking pedal (constant speed) should in your mind constitute "uncontrollable acceleration"? -- Clive
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 7 Feb 2010 17:00
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:26:26 -0800, Stewart wrote: > > "Tegger" <invalid(a)invalid.inv> wrote in message > news:Xns9D178C1E7E91Dtegger(a)208.90.168.18... >> "Stewart" <gortamus(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:hkk62t$ag0$1(a)news.eternal- >> september.org: >> >> >> >>>> >>> Dare we say Class Action Lawsuit? Everyone affected will get $2500 off >>> their next new Toyota purchase, >> >> >> >> More likely you'll just get a coupon for $10 off your next oil change. >> >> >> >>> and the lawyer firm will get millions..... >>> >>> >> >> That's a certainty. That's what mass tort is for. >> >> >> -- >> Tegger >> >> > A fair and equitable distribution for the customers troubles. Now where > did that Microsoft coupon go...... Really. The only people who win in a class action lawsuit are the lawyers. |