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- From: gvanmoor@nrao.edu (Gustaaf Van Moorsel,,,)
- Subject: Re: Politics of car buying
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.152619.29534@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- References: <1993Jan20.180843.2074@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:26:19 GMT
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- In article 2074@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com, c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
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- >>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...
- >
- >Spiros
-
- Well, I lived in Germany for seven years and I assure you, it is certainly much more
- than the low teens; the lates figure I have is around 20-25%. But this is beside
- the point anyway, my point was that in a market like Germany the Japanese outsell
- the American made cars by at least a factor 10 (I deliberately give a low estimate), where none of the two receives any preferential treatment.
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