Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of Engine-Cars Date: 5 Nov 2024 03:36:30 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <4b10d0c4-11a6-65e6-c8a3-0e10e24a3998@example.net> <6N7WO.487483$WOde.302318@fx09.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net pPyhi6IcdPfBkPmmUV4s0QkoZJHIa3MRCbxnoeuEurMDgUY6Cf Cancel-Lock: sha1:HxzQ6/HOgf8O3MiK9BYssXpEn8s= sha256:2ahLHfbAduNthRFHdZ4tu/T8uEmDYYapKQrREzxq67A= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:228622 comp.os.linux.misc:60601 On Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:47:46 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2024-11-04, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> In the end the European market pretty much kept out US cars and vice >> versa. The Japanese didn't have such a big home market so they went for >> it big time. Sound reliable cars loaded with nice toys. > > I guess it's time to dig out that one about trade negotiations between > the U.S. and Japan. The Americans were being quite hard-nosed, and the > Japanese complained, "Why are you being so hard on us? After all, > we never destroyed one of your cities." To which one of the Americans > snapped: "What about Detroit?" The observation I liked was the Japanese trade delegations would replace members when they died while the US tended to replace the entire delegation after every elections. The Japs would spend 4 years running the newbies through the hoops, sit back, and wait for the next crop of greenhorns.