"Wild_Bill" wrote in message
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I'd like to see a show of hands, indicating how many guys ever saw one of
the Jeeps that were made in China.. when was that, in the 80s?

An entire manufacturing facility was built in China, and failed to turn
out even one finished vehicle, IIRC. The entire project was a complete
loss.

I wonder if the Chinese considered turning the plant into a weapons
factory.

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WB


huh. i was traveling in china in '86. seemed at the time they'd just put
in that jeep factory. i thought the jeeps i was seeing around shanghai were
manufactured at that factory... but actually now i can't remember, maybe it
was they were saying they WERE going to put in a jeep factory. at the time
there were volkswagen jettas (i think it was jettas? golfs?) driving
around. snazzy cars for china at the time, compared to those ubiquitous
single cylinder water cooled lister(?) farm vehicles (they look like rear
tine rototillers). i can't remember now if they were saying they were going
to be building jettas there or that they had already started building them
there. i'm forgetting the chronology. but, at the time, there were jeeps
and jettas driving around (but not a lot of 'em, there were only just "a
few" (was probably thousands of 'em but the shanghai area is pretty big) and
it was kinda a big deal for the chinese.

b.w.