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- From: mark@wdcwdc.sps.mot.com (Mark Shaw)
- Subject: Re: Politics of car buying(Buying a Japane
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.182723.19795@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:27:23 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.164827.26864@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>, gvanmoor@nrao.edu (Gustaaf Van Moorsel,,,) writes:
- |> In Germany, where there are even fewer restrictions on importing cars than in the US
- |> (no quota, no extra taxes on light trucks), Japanese cars are almost as successful as
- |> they are in the US. The US car segment is vanishingly small, though it has seen some
- |> increase in the last couple of years due to the low dollar. Still, an American made
- |> care is something of a rarity apart from the vicinity of US bases.
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- I seriously doubt that Japan has 20% of the German market like they do in US.
- Germany has always been very nationalistic in their car buying habits.
- Do you have some numbers to demonstrate this claim?
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- The US actually has a strong dominance in Europe thru GM's Opel subsidiary
- and Ford of Europe. Also, with the EEC coming up there must be significant
- European content in products sold there. It just doesn't make sense for
- Ford or GM to import cars to Germany, when they can make what the local
- customers want right in their backyard with basically no tariff penalties.
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- Mark
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