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- From: mark@wdcwdc.sps.mot.com (Mark Shaw)
- Subject: Re: Politics of car buying
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.002553.3502@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- References: <1993Jan20.180843.2074@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> <1993Jan21.152619.29534@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:25:53 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.152619.29534@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>, gvanmoor@nrao.edu (Gustaaf Van Moorsel,,,) writes:
- |> In article 2074@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com, c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) 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.
- |> >
- |> >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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- You are still coming to the same wrong conclusions that everyone else makes. Namely
- That American cars are suited to German tastes.
- That lack of American cars in Germany is a lack of American business presence there.
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- If you do have the data, please share the numbers with us and for
- which years they are valid. I would really like to see how the Japanese
- stack up against VW, Opel, or Ford in the German market.
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- Mark
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