On Jan 5, 11:48 am, MoPar Man <Mo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> who wrote:
> > > Most of Chrysler's decent products are too big for Europe.
>
> The 300m was designed for a 5m length with Europe in mind.
>
> > There LH and 300 cars are too big for the UK,
>
> No. I've seen 300m's being used as taxi's in the Netherlands.
>
> The 300m wasn't a large car compared to some BMW's and Merc's.
>
No, but it was large compared to "family" cars in its price class.
> Chrysler even put a 2.7l engine in them for European ex****t. Daimler
> did nothing to sell Chrysler in Europe.
>
Why would anyone buy a Caliber when Europeans get much better small
cars? And big cars just don't sell there unless they're names like
BMW and Mercedes.
> And it's long known that Japan puts barriers in place for US car
> makers, barriers that GATT can't touch.
>
No it's not. Used to be, but not anymore.
> How well are sales of, say, German cars in Japan? Anyone know the
> answer to that?
>
> I don't know if it's still true, but 20 years ago in Japan they had
> crazy rules about cars where they were put through increasingly tough
> road-worthyness tests designed to make most people buy new cars every
> few years, forcing a high turn-over of otherwise good cars. I've seen
> engines from those cars ****pped to the US in crates to be used for
> replacements because they were still good.
Apparently that has changed now.
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