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From: stekas@houxy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: German vs. U.S. Prices
Message-ID: <147@houxy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 14:00:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 12 14:00:33 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Oct-83 21:49:51 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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 Todays N.Y. Times gives the following prices for German
cars:

                                     German        U.S.
          MODEL                      price        price
     =========================      ========     ========
     Mercedes 190E (Sedan)          $10,601      $24,000
              300TD (wagon)          13,157       33,850
              380SL                  23,620       43,822

        BMW   318i                    8,483       16,430
        Audi  4000                    6,062       10,205
        Audi  Coup                    8,313       13,105


After thinking about this a little, I've decided that the
American car market splits into the following categories:

      German - those who must pay 2x what a car is worth
    Japanese - those who must pay 2x less
   Amereican - those who think Sears charges too much for metric wrenches.
     Italian - those (like myself) who believe their cars will become
               classics after the others have rusted to powder.
     English - Italian car buyers who are too impatient to wait for rust
               to take its toll.

Do any of you know of any other categories I've left out ?

                                           Jim Stekas
                                           BTL Holmdel