Re: Mercedes still may profit from Chrysler

"Stephen Harding" <smharding16@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Isn't the Tundra a largely US designed and built truck?

And what has that got to do with anything? It still says Toyota.

> I've heard the quality of Toyotas and Hondas built in the
> US is poorer than those built in Japan.
>
> A sad story if true.
>
> It took Detroit about 10 years to lose the confidence of
> the American automobile buying public, and it will take
> a while to get it back as well.
>
> Another sad story that it took the Japanese to get Detroit
> to once again build a quality automobile (which I think is
> now more often the case than not).

The Japanese managed to break into the US market by selling some of 
the poorest designed cars sold in decades. Maybe you are to young to 
remeber the early 70's Toyotas and Datsun, or the late 70's Hondas, 
but I am not. I still vidly remember my Sisters 1980 Accord and my 
1984 Toyota Cressida - rolling junk and they were "good" Japanese 
cars. I can also remember the early Civics, Toyota 1200, 
etc.....cheap, unreliable, slow, ugly, etc., etc., etc....

> The Japanese still build the best quality car though.

And your proof is? And how do you define quality?

Ed