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- From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Politics of car buying
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.180843.2074@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 18:08:43 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.020843.6003@EE.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan20.164827.26864@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan20.164827.26864@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> gvanmoor@nrao.edu writes:
- >Interesting is that everybody seems to think that once the trade barriers are gone
- >the Japanese will all stand in line to buy Chevrolets and Buicks. But will they
- >want to? ....
-
- The issue, unfortunately, is not on the trade deficit due to *cars*, but
- due to *car parts*. The issue is not getting Mr. and Ms. Average Japanese
- Car Buyer to buy a Taurus or a Cherokee or a 'Vette, but rather, how to
- get Mr. Average Japanese Car Company to buy *car parts* from US sources, mainly
- for the cars they build (assemble) in the US. And we're talking about
- products ranging from fasteners to wiring harnesses to batteries to you-name-it.
-
- >In Germany, where there are even fewer restrictions on importing cars than in the US
- >(no quota, no extra taxes on light trucks), Japanese cars are almost as successful as
- >they are in the US.
-
- I don't think so; I have the figures in the library, but I seem to remember
- that Japanese car market share in Germany is at best in the low teens %,
- while in the US is in the upper twenties or low thirties...
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- Spiros
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