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- From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
- Subject: Re: CONSUMER REPORTS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.012103.19921@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 01:21:03 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- In article <1992Nov16.003536.14593@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) writes:
-
- I wrote:
- >>I seem to have some cloggin' in my noggin'.
- >>This is the upteenth post by Mr. Chen, supporting vehicles made by the
- >>domestics, but Mr. Chen himself bought an Acura Integra. No matter how
- >>you slice that vehicle, it was not engineered in America, was not
- >>manufactured here, and was not assembled here.
- >>Come on. Let's be consistent. Mr. Chen sounds like all those Toyota
- >>salesmen who harp and harp about how great Toyota is, but if you ask
- >>them what kind of car _they_ drive, they say that they drive Honda.
- >>Sheesh.
- >[rest of verbiage deleted]
-
- Teddy writes:
- >by your yardstick, if i were to buy a lexus ES300, i would no longer be
- >able to say that the BMW 325is is a driver's car or that the
- >taurus SHO offers a terrific performance to price ratio.
-
- That's not correct.
-
- Most of Teddy's post have a singular theme: Buy American.
- But Teddy himself bought an Acura Integra.
-
- I'm just pointing out the irony here. But I agree with Teddy.
- I'd much rather have an Integra than any American car, including a
- Camaro. I simply cannot stand poor workmanship and an all around
- inferior product.
-
- >this isn't the first time you've attacked what you perceive to be
- >my pro-american/buy-japanese-anyway bias.
-
- Nope. I just find it ironic that Teddy tells the next guy to buy
- American while he himself buys Japanese.
-
- Although I think that the USA should retaliate against Japanese
- barriers to trade (immediately and harshly), I have never advocated
- that someone should consistently buy domestics. This is something
- that the "You'd-better-shut-up-you-Japan-basher" types have overlooked
- when they are unsheathing their switchblades.
-
- >as you observed, you do have some cloggin' in your noggin', indeed.
-
- No, just a teddy-itis infection.
-
- >-teddy
-
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