On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 01:25:15 +0000 "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
writes:
>> If you had instead started with the thought that
>> "knocking off other cars are bad", then you'd see that
>> it really applied to everyone.
>>
>> Would american manufacturers ever make a compact car if
>> the japanese hadn't done it first?
>>
>> Would the Ford Probe or Eagle Talon ever exist if the
>> Japanese hadn't made the sport compact market what it
>> is today?
>>
>> Would ford have made the xxxx if chevy hadn't been
>> first with the yyyy?
>>
>> It goes on.
>>
>> - --
>> Trevor Boicey
>> Ottawa, Canada
>> tboicey@brit.ca
>>
>Trevor,
> Actually, would the Probe or Eagle even exist if the foreign
>car
>companies hadn't agreed to help with the development? After all, the
>Probe is basically a Mazda MX-6 with Ford badges (I've always thought
>Mazda had much more input into the "joint" effort that Ford did.),
>and the Eagle Talon, Plymouth Laser, and Mitsubishi Eclipse are the
>same car with some minor styling differences. I don't know who was
>actually in on the original design. I realize that these aren't
>knock-offs, they're actually sister cars, but how many dodge/plymouth
>cars can you think of that are actually Mistubishis with American
>badges on them? (I can think of three off the top of my head.) The
>first Geo Prisms were japanese-built cars with some minor cosmetic
>changes to them. (Toyotas, I think).
> It's funny to that some cars we think of as being
>all-American, like
>the Jeep Wrangler, are manufactured completely in different
>countries, whereas the Honda Accord just recently made some consumer
>group's approved list of Made-in-America products.
>Scott
>Scott Gardner
>gardner@lwcomm.com
>www.lwcomm.com/~gardner
>In 1987, when it was making my S-10, Chevrolet was advertising itself as
"The Hearbeat of America." The V-6 heartbeat in my S-10 was made in
Mexico.
Bob
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