Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!widener!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!ariel!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!wehi.dn.mu.oz!baxter_a From: baxter_a@wehi.dn.mu.oz Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Who cares if its made in USA? Message-ID: <1991Jun25.133105.24631@wehi.dn.mu.oz> Date: 25 Jun 91 13:31:04 GMT References: <1991Jun23.203549.24627@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <1991Jun24.102852.29436@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute Lines: 53 In article , rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: > 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... Wow! All the discussion style of -MB-. The statement was not "always". It was "often". It was not a blanket statement, it was a qualified statement. And as we have already discussed, I am not the sort to be involved in a stoning. > > 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... Those "well informed customers" is what the rest of the world is made of. Crysler has a poor reputation here, where Japanese and European cars dominate. American cars have the reputation of only lasting a few years, while most people buy a car to last 10+ years. I have no real knowledge of how long US cars would really last here, because I don't know anyone who owns one. > Does Commodore have a Japanese version of AmigaDOS??? If not, why not?! I bet .... (some silly stuff deleted) > > -- 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! Regards Alan