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Re: Alpine versus Datsun Roadster

To: Jerome Yuzyk <jerome@supernet.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: Alpine versus Datsun Roadster
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 19:56:00 -0500
At 05:38 PM 12/7/01 -0700, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>I have read that Nissan bought several British cars of various marques, 
>took them apart and studied them. From that the Fairlady was born.


Britain and Japan were really close trading partners prior to the Second
World War, and most Japanese industry began by adapting British procedures
to Japanese circumstances.  Thus, early Postwar Japanese cars are simply
British cars as they SHOULD have been built.  Go over a late-model Nissan
or Honda product and you will still see far more echoes of British than US
technology.

Marc

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