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- From: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
- Subject: Re: Mazda scraps Amati
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.021940.8078@tandem.com>
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- Reply-To: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
- Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov23.211736.19763@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:19:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.211736.19763@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Fengxi Zhou) writes:
- |> Due partly to the lacklustre US auto market, Mazda has abandoned its plan to
- |> fill the market with yet another Japanese Luxuary car line, reported Autocar
- Just what the country needed, another $40,000 Japanese car line. It is
- getting more and more apparent that the Japanese have gotten to greedy
- and/or have lost touch with what people want and what they are
- willing to pay.
-
- Sales may have been lacklustre but both Ford & Chrysler managed to
- sell more cars than the year before, and Saturn sold as many as they
- could make. Chrysler stock has gone from a low of $9 this year up to
- $29 and made over $200 million in profits last quarter. This is
- before they even sold any of their new LH models. In the same period
- Nissan lost $200 million.
-
- Speaking of Nissan, I drove past a guy driving the new Altima. They
- are positioning this against the Accord and Camry. All I can say is,
- it's a good thing they aren't trying to go toe to toe with Ford
- Taurus. I laughed when I saw the thing, it is both shorter and
- narrower than my wife's Topaz. I read somewhere it is about 2"
- narrower than the Stanza it replaces. By the way, it did not have
- the Stanza badge they have in the ads, it just said Altima. I'm
- not sure exactly who their target market is but they start at $13K.
- Maybe they want it to be a pocket rocket like the MX3?!? Seriously,
- if they are going after the mid-size market with this, good luck to
- them. The LH models start at only a couple thousand more than this.
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