clare at snyder.on.ca wrote in message
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US automakers have for many years provided AFFORDABLE vehicles to the
American public that were acceptable quality. The nips decided they
couldn't get into that market, they make the same quality for much higher
prices and call them "luxury". However, I wouldn't complain at all if
you
decided to take your whole family to japland and become jap. Then you
too
can have your fishheads and rice every day.

The Japanese builders were forced to move upmarket because of the
"voluntary" trade agreements of the 1980s, imposed on them by the US. They
had no choice.

That's one of the two reasons they started building cars in the US, too. The
other was that it was becoming clear that offshore manufacturing was a smart
move for them all the way around.

Rich. (Who hates all things jap.)

I'll bet you loved the "Chevy and apple pie" commercials they were running a
few years ago. The apple pie is good, but it didn't help the cars very much.

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Ed Huntress