Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.auto,net.rumor Subject: Re: New auto models for '86 and '87 Message-ID: <567@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 11:04:02 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.567 Posted: Thu Mar 13 11:04:02 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 19:55:06 EST References: <100@druxv.UUCP> <1601@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1534@gitpyr.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 33 Xref: watmath net.auto:9786 net.rumor:1544 In article <1534@gitpyr.UUCP> kevin@gitpyr.UUCP (Kevin Campbell) writes: >In article <1601@brl-smoke.ARPA> wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes: >>in an episode a few weeks back, they reviewed the Hyundai. One of their >>comments was that it came with "American-made Goodyear tires". What I am >>wondering about this is: Is it really economical to ship Goodyear tires >>from the US plant (Ohio?) to the West Coast, then float them over to >>Korea, and then ship them back here installed on Hyundai cars? Or do >> >It is my understanding that the Hyundai is made up of parts manufactured in >this country, and that the parts are shipped to Korea, and assembled over >there. If this is true, it would be a good car to consider, because the >parts must obviously be available in this country. >Kevin Campbell Strange; it was my understanding that although some small pieces (i.e. the ones you replace every so often) were bought off the shelf here, what you basically get is an Italian-styled, Korean-built Mitsubishi. With Goodyear Corsa radials and Champion plugs. Which is to say, no, the big pieces are made OVER THERE. Read my other posting. -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu ARPA n. [acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency.] An agency of the U.S. Department of Defense established in 1968 to test its defenses against misuse and piracy in the large-scale distributed processing environment. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"