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- From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast)
- Subject: Re: Whining about buying American cars
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:35:36 GMT
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- In article <1eh1bvINNmv3@gap.caltech.edu> lxrosser@cco.caltech.edu (Alex Rosser) writes:
- >jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost) writes:
- >
- >>WRT the Japanese vs American argument, I don't consider it relevant
- >>anymore. I pointedly avoided looking at American-built cars and
- >>kicked myself later for not looking at the Saturns. It's become
- >>obvious that American cars *can* compete effectively with the
- >>Japanese, it just took the big three a long time to decide to do it.
- >
- >
- > One thing that gets me is, if American car companies can build
- >cars of comperable quality to imports(and I prefer European to
- >Japanese and Japanese to American) why does Saturn have to make
- >such a big deal about being an American car company that is building
- >cars that are on par with the Japanese quality wise?
- >
-
- Because people are misguided in this country. If you look at
- statistics, there are American car co's in the top ten. Saturn is
- third to Lexus and Infiniti in the JD Power survey. People don't realize
- that, which is why Toyota can charge $$$$$$$ more for a Corrola than GM for
- a Prizm, Mitsu $$$$$$ more for a 3000GT than Dodge for a Stealth. Things
- like that get ME. BTW I drive a Japanese Car....
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