Sujet : Re: The joy of Engine-Cars
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 05. Nov 2024, 04:36:30
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On Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:47:46 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2024-11-04, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
In the end the European market pretty much kept out US cars and vice
versa. The Japanese didn't have such a big home market so they went for
it big time. Sound reliable cars loaded with nice toys.
I guess it's time to dig out that one about trade negotiations between
the U.S. and Japan. The Americans were being quite hard-nosed, and the
Japanese complained, "Why are you being so hard on us? After all,
we never destroyed one of your cities." To which one of the Americans
snapped: "What about Detroit?"
The observation I liked was the Japanese trade delegations would replace
members when they died while the US tended to replace the entire
delegation after every elections. The Japs would spend 4 years running the
newbies through the hoops, sit back, and wait for the next crop of
greenhorns.