Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Who cares if its made in USA? Message-ID: Date: 24 Jun 91 18:01:12 GMT References: <1991Jun23.203549.24627@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <1991Jun24.102852.29436@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 65 peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) wri >> Interesting that you say US products aren't as good. My friend owns a resear >> company that basically does quality studies and customer surveys and I >> remember the WORST BUILT AMERICAN FORD was the Mustang, built in Dearborn, >> Michigan. It scored miles ahead in quality than the Australian designed and >> built Mercury Capri, which is based on a Mazda 323 platform... > >You think you have union problems in the states, try Australia some time. The >unions basically run the country. The total population is 14 million, with an >economy about the size of Houston's (pop 3 million). Well, I never visited Australia...Union city eh? As long as crime isn't involved with the union, there is wrong with unions, they are the lesser of two evils sometimes...Apple might become unionized from the way the paper is talking...(I basically only see UAW around here, so I don't really know much about the crooked ones, like Teamsters)..Detroit wouldn't exist in its current form if the UAW never existed..We have the 4th largest concentration of wealth in the United States according to a recent New York Stock Exchange survey. >Bragging that US built cars are better than Australian built ones is like >bragging that the Amiga is better then the Atari. But the Amiga IS better ;-) >Why don't you try comparisons with European Fords? Ford of Europe doesn't import cars to the United States for sale.... I hear they dropped the football on the new Escort for Europe though, sales are W-A-Y down...So since they don't bring cars it the US market for sale, I can't find any information on them(Ford Australia brings cars here, so I have the stats). I took the worst built, lowest quality Ford, and compaired to what they are bringing in. An unfounded statement was made that American products are always worse than products not made in America...A blanket statement like this gets blow away when I compair Aus Vs US...So someone shouldn't throw stones... Europe is the toughest open market though, because they generally have very well informed customers...Europe has made Chrysler the largest American exporter($700++ million a year in sales of US built cars just in Europe)..It took Chrysler 11 years to get their quality up enough for people in Europe to even consider buying one...(BTW the sales in the US increased during most of these 11 years that they didn't sell cars/trucks in Europe...1981 they sold 1,283K and in 1989 they sold 2,382K They doubled sales, mostly in trucks though..) And its not just Chrysler USA that benifits from European sales, Chrysler Canada also has a chunk of the European sales...Now Chrysler is designing Jeeps just for Japan, England, and Australia, lets see what happens when the tables are turned...I hear they have a partnership with Honda to distribute Jeeps in Japan, so they will be the first low priced vehicles to be distributed in Japan... Does Commodore have a Japanese version of AmigaDOS??? If not, why not?! I bet a $500 computer would sell VERY WELL in Japan...They are NTSC, they can use the Toaster!!! We will show them what garbage MSX is! Is MSX still popular in Japan? Apple is hitting the Japanese in DETROIT with the Japanese Macintosh Operating System!! Hoping that when these people return to Japan they will want Mac's there....LETS GET WITH THE GAME! There are 1,400 Japanese owned factors in the United States and 200,000 Japanese working in the United States.... -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) DETROIT - NO WIMPS!