Re: Mercedes still may profit from Chrysler

"C. E. White" <cewhite3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Stephen Harding" <smharding16@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Isn't the Tundra a largely US designed and built truck?
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> And what has that got to do with anything? It still says Toyota.
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>> I've heard the quality of Toyotas and Hondas built in the
>> US is poorer than those built in Japan.
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>> A sad story if true.
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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> 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....

I'm old enough to remember the Vega Pinto and so on.

>> The Japanese still build the best quality car though.
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> And your proof is? And how do you define quality?

How about drive it.