On Jun 1, 12:33*am, "
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On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:09:33 -0500, Jim Yanik wrote:
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On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:06:28 -0400, "Ralph Mowery"
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"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"harry" wrote in message

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Heh Heh. *Finally catches up with where Europe and Japan were fifty
years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/bu...uto.html?_r=1&
src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpa ges%2Fbusiness%2Fi
ndex.jsonp

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The car makers are not catching up, the consumer is. *Detroit built
small car back in the 60's. *I liked my '62 Corvair. *Then the
Pinto, Chevette, Horizon, Vega, etc, but they just never sold many
of them.

The American cars did have the small cars as far back as the 60's.
Just none of them were any good. *The larger ones were not any better.