On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:16:32 EDT mgbob@juno.com (ROBERT G. HOWARD)
writes:
>
>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
How about them Camero's that were advertised as "from the country that
invented Rock and Roll"? I did'nt know Canada raised Little Richard,
Bill Haley, etc,etc.
Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget
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