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Hoopz:
mY cAps LOCk is FINE!
I'm gonna paste a link to the longest damn ebay auction I can find just to piss everybody off. :applaud:
;D
ChadTower:
The more I look at the Le Car the more I sorta want one. Paint that sucker black with purple accents... some undercarraige lights, LED rims... an 18" sub in the back... :laugh2:
TOK:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 08, 2009, 01:56:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: TOK on April 08, 2009, 01:51:54 pm ---Alfa never sold anything here remotely competing with Ferrari. Don't even know if they've made anything that could compete with a Ferrari in the last 40 years. The 164 was the last car they were selling here, which was a 4 door with a V6.
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And yet they were marketed as such... Alfa Romeo: "this is why you fail". Probably would have sold as a mid range sports car but that's not the market they wanted.
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I don't remember that at all. They were shooting for Jaguars market.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 08, 2009, 02:07:46 pm ---
The more I look at the Le Car the more I sorta want one. Paint that sucker black with purple accents... some undercarraige lights, LED rims... an 18" sub in the back... :laugh2:
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There is something kind of awesome about it. Like Plan 9 From Outer Space.
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 08, 2009, 10:58:16 am ---
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on April 08, 2009, 03:19:37 am ---
point is, you DID see korean cars in the US in the early 90's.
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Oh, Hyundai is still here and doing very well.
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zachary. I'm old enough to remember when everyone used to refer to japanese cars as 'bloody jap crap'. japanese cars were considered inferior. Then it was Koreas turn. And i was one of those saying how crappy they were. But after time (ablink of an eye with the Korean cars) they improved. I think the same could happen with Chinese cars. It's snobbery that assumes somehow no one but your own country can build good cars. I feel that way about Indian and Malaysian cars right now. But Mercedes have plants in India...
About the french cars. That's a mystery about the american market i only realised in the last year or so. They sell ok here in Australia, even though we are less than 10% the population of the US. They build quality, stylish cars. I think maybe the US has a problem with too many entrepreneurs in the car market. Someone mentioned Le Car for instance. I don't believe that ever made it here. Or the Yugo ;)
Australian cars only last in the US while theres a special niche, like the Monaro. Price of labour here is quite high, and when the exchange rate gets closer to parity, you can't sell Australian cars in the US. Our dollar has dropped again, so if it stays below say 75 cents US, you may well see Aussie cars in the US again. Only problem being we are good at building big cars. So is the US, and less people are buying them...
But my main point was that BYD are filling an important niche that needs to be looked at- the plug in hybrid. Will GM ever do it? They are talking about bankruptcy. I'm sure the first thing to go will be R & D on 'futuristic' ideas. The Chinese are happy to do the R & D, so why shouldn't they reap the rewards? Asia is where it's at for cars. First Japan, then Korea. I believe China is in asia somewhere...
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