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- From: dclayton@bnr.ca (Don Clayton)
- Subject: Re: Politics of car buying(Buying a Japane
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.205045.9914@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- References: <1993Jan20.020843.6003@EE.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan20.164827.26864@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <1993Jan21.182723.19795@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:50:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.182723.19795@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, mark@wdcwdc.sps.mot.com (Mark Shaw) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan20.164827.26864@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>, gvanmoor@nrao.edu (Gustaaf Van Moorsel,,,) writes:
- |> |> 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. The US car segment is vanishingly small, though it has seen some
- |> |> increase in the last couple of years due to the low dollar. Still, an American made
- |> |> care is something of a rarity apart from the vicinity of US bases.
- |>
- |> I seriously doubt that Japan has 20% of the German market like they do in US.
- |> Germany has always been very nationalistic in their car buying habits.
- |> Do you have some numbers to demonstrate this claim?
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- I thought the Japanese had 30%+ of the U.S. auto market (last numbers I saw - 1991 I
- think). Anyone know the new number (maybe 20% is the new number - in which case I
- would have expected one of the Japanese manufactures to fold)?
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- Don Clayton
- a.k.a. Admiral Maverick, DM of the Drow
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- "I'm all lost in the Supermarket. I can no longer shop happily.
- I came in here for the special offer, guaranteed personality."
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