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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: European cars and US cars
Message-ID: <1418@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 91 06:35:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.172203.18709@infonode.ingr.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <1991Jun25.172203.18709@infonode.ingr.com> mcclend@infonode.ingr.com (William D McClendon) writes:
>Whoa! wait a minute!
>
>The Scorpio was chosen European Car of the Year when introduced.  The Merkur
>is very popular in Germanic countries.

What is a Merkur? Never heard that name (though I know Scorpio). Perhaps
it's named differently here?

>  In fact, Ford is among the top five
>car countries in Europe (Sorry, do not haver the figures handy).

Well, but they aren't doing *very* well at the moment.

You see, there are statistics published every year, which cars fail
on which reason and how often (published by services). It's sad to
say, but at first rank you definitely find only Japanese cars (yes,
I have a Mazda myself), even Mercedes Benz has to struggle hard to
not lose too much ground. The big manufacturers like Volkswagen,
Ford, Opel (General Motors) turn in in the middle field, the losers
are French and Italian cars.  Remember, this is all reliability data.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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