Yup! It is not easy to navigate where facts take a backseat to opinion.
Otis Wright
"K.Takeshita" wrote:
> on 1/18/01 2:26 PM, Pål Jensen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> Similar thing can be said on cars. Except recent trend of luxury lines like
> >> Lexus and Accura, most Japanese cars imported here are plain Jane (yet
> >> solid) models, i.e., very practical. In Europe, on the other hand, they are
> >> exporting fancier models not available in North America.
> >
> >
> > Absolutely NOT. Europe hate "fancy" japanese cars. The most sold car in the US
> > is the Toyota Camry. In comparison they sold 1000 of it in the UK making it
> > the least popular car in its class.
> <<snipped to shorten>>
> > reflected in SLR sales something the Europeans seems to prefer more than the
> > americans; the latter seems to have a hang for p&s.
> > [Why do I get a feeling of deja-vu - Have we had this discussion before?]
>
> Oops, I seem to have innocently walked into a mine field :-)
> As I said, I am not an expert, but I was thinking a model called Nissan
> Skyline GT which is a high performance specialty car (not for mass selling
> though) which I know Nissan would not even consider exporting to the U.S.
> market, but heard that it is available somewhere in Europe. I was also
> under the impression that some of Japanese cars sold in Europe retain a few
> features (turbo or whatever) which are dropped in the U.S. models.
> I could be wrong on a car analogy, but the point I was trying to make was
> that Japanese mfrs tend to spec down their products in the U.S. (or North
> American) market.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ken
>
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