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- From: rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade)
- Subject: Re: Honda to move HQ to US
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.191500.26770@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov11.135718.8950@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> <1992Nov12.124943.3877@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> <1992Nov13.155022.22060@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:15:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.155022.22060@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU writes:
- >In <1992Nov12.124943.3877@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> dan@grok85.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Daniel Adams) writes:
- >
- >>What really amazes me is the way Honda is trying to convince Americans
- >>that their products are American. Not 5 years ago the biggest selling
- >>point of Honda was that it was Japanese. In fact there was major concern
- >>of Honda-ites that the quality of American built Hondas would be lower
- >>than for Japanese built. With the poor domestic economy over the past
- >>couple of years, there has been a resurgance of buy American, and
- >>Honda is taking steps to try to save their slipping sales.
- >
- >I never had any concern about where the cars were made. I consider
- >Japanese design to be superior. I'm happy that my Civic was assembled in
- >Ohio for economic reasons but I was never concerned about quality control.
- >
- >-Geoff
- >--
-
- it's not just the car desgin, but also the design of the process of building
- the car as well parts supplier requirements. just my $.02
-