Re: Mercedes still may profit from Chrysler

C. E. White wrote:

> 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....

All I remember is that the early Honda engines self destructed 
(somewhere shy of 100k mile IIRC?) in normal use, though that can't be 
said of their engines today.

Bill Putney
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