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- From: lhclin@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Louis Lin)
- Subject: Selling Saturns in Japan (Re: Politics of car buying(Buying a Japanese car))
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <80930@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1993Jan20.221143.9065@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:33:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.221143.9065@oakhill.sps.mot.com> rvkl60@email.sps.mot.com (Tom Mathes) writes:
- >
- >In the 1994 model year, Saturn will export cars to Japan specifically
- >tailored for the Japanese market. They will be right hand drive, have
- >mirrors/lights designed for their market, and even come with power antennas
- >(the domestic versions won't) so that the cars can be parked in those
- >cubbyhole-like parking decks that are needed in dense urban areas, etc.
- >It will be interesting to see if that car, which is successful in the
- >U.S., can make it in Japan.
- >
-
- Here in Canada (or Ontario to be more specific), I do not notice that many
- Saturns are running on the streets. My suspicion is that they are not selling
- that well. In the US, the strongest selling point of Saturn so far I can see is
- extremely good dealer service, which is not available here (Saturns are sold
- through Isuzu/Saab/Saturn dealers), thus the mediocre sale. So when Saturn is
- to hit Japan in 1994, in order for it to be successful, not only the product has
- to be right, good service must also be there.
-
- I may be pessimistic, but if Saturn is to be sold through Toyota dealers in Japan
- (correct me on this), it will certainly lost its strongest virtue.
-
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