Bought my 2005 Tacoma new. It's approaching 300,000 miles. I figure me a Toyota both git a decent deal.
Don't forget that it was these Japanese cars that finally shook the "US Mericans only want huge heavy cars and trucks" put of Detroit.
Good to see that they are listening now. Too bad that couldn't figure this one out on their own.
Yeah, one could accurately say that from about 1974 to 1986 the Japanese were kicking Detroit's ass. Honda being the heavyweight champ at same. Honda made and exported lawn mowers (very few Japanese have grass to cut) and boat motors (maybe 1 out of 300 people in Japan drive a car; much much fewer own a boat). I can remember as a kid when anything made in Japan was considered junk. It just goes to show that the most rapid and profitable way to success is to lose a war with the US....like Germany and Japan. Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan just weren't paying attention.
Bought my 2005 Tacoma new. It's approaching 300,000 miles. I figure me a Toyota both git a decent deal.
Don't forget that it was these Japanese cars that finally shook the "US Mericans only want huge heavy cars and trucks" put of Detroit.
Good to see that they are listening now. Too bad that couldn't figure this one out on their own.
Yeah, one could accurately say that from about 1974 to 1986 the Japanese were kicking Detroit's ass. Honda being the heavyweight champ at same. Honda made and exported lawn mowers (very few Japanese have grass to cut) and boat motors (maybe 1 out of 300 people in Japan drive a car; much much fewer own a boat). I can remember as a kid when anything made in Japan was considered junk. It just goes to show that the most rapid and profitable way to success is to lose a war with the US....like Germany and Japan. Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan just weren't paying attention.
Japan's automotive success from the 70's onward has a lot to do with their culture. At a time when American car workers were more interested in getting high, drunk, grabbing the nearest pussy, etc., the Japanese were out to make the best possible product given their design and material constraints. And the Japanese view of the business was that it was a type of war to be won.
Bought my 2005 Tacoma new. It's approaching 300,000 miles. I figure me a Toyota both git a decent deal.
Don't forget that it was these Japanese cars that finally shook the "US Mericans only want huge heavy cars and trucks" put of Detroit.
Good to see that they are listening now. Too bad that couldn't figure this one out on their own.
Yeah, one could accurately say that from about 1974 to 1986 the Japanese were kicking Detroit's ass. Honda being the heavyweight champ at same. Honda made and exported lawn mowers (very few Japanese have grass to cut) and boat motors (maybe 1 out of 300 people in Japan drive a car; much much fewer own a boat). I can remember as a kid when anything made in Japan was considered junk. It just goes to show that the most rapid and profitable way to success is to lose a war with the US....like Germany and Japan. Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan just weren't paying attention.
Japan's automotive success from the 70's onward has a lot to do with their culture. At a time when American car workers were more interested in getting high, drunk, grabbing the nearest pussy, etc., the Japanese were out to make the best possible product given their design and material constraints. And the Japanese view of the business was that it was a type of war to be won.
And not just the workers. It was top down: Americans only want big cars, seat belts will put the cost of autos too high for the average person, no one wants safety over style, the same ol blah blah from any situation where they are or believe they are above competition.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
Bought my 2005 Tacoma new. It's approaching 300,000 miles. I figure me a Toyota both git a decent deal.
Don't forget that it was these Japanese cars that finally shook the "US Mericans only want huge heavy cars and trucks" put of Detroit.
Good to see that they are listening now. Too bad that couldn't figure this one out on their own.
Yeah, one could accurately say that from about 1974 to 1986 the Japanese were kicking Detroit's ass. Honda being the heavyweight champ at same. Honda made and exported lawn mowers (very few Japanese have grass to cut) and boat motors (maybe 1 out of 300 people in Japan drive a car; much much fewer own a boat). I can remember as a kid when anything made in Japan was considered junk. It just goes to show that the most rapid and profitable way to success is to lose a war with the US....like Germany and Japan. Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan just weren't paying attention.
Japan's automotive success from the 70's onward has a lot to do with their culture. At a time when American car workers were more interested in getting high, drunk, grabbing the nearest pussy, etc., the Japanese were out to make the best possible product given their design and material constraints. And the Japanese view of the business was that it was a type of war to be won.
I disagree. The UAW "workers" are NOT the people who designed the cars. The inherent culture of the Japanese worker in any capacity is one in which the person doesn't consider his job as just somewhere he spends eight hours a day; they take pride in doing a good job. I've seen this in person. And it was an American named Deming who taught the Japanese about quality control; he tried to teach Detroit about it but they weren't interested. The Mazda Miata was an American design that no American auto maker was interested in, so the guy who designed it took it to Japan.
Bought my 2005 Tacoma new. It's approaching 300,000 miles. I figure me a Toyota both git a decent deal.
Don't forget that it was these Japanese cars that finally shook the "US Mericans only want huge heavy cars and trucks" put of Detroit.
Good to see that they are listening now. Too bad that couldn't figure this one out on their own.
Yeah, one could accurately say that from about 1974 to 1986 the Japanese were kicking Detroit's ass. Honda being the heavyweight champ at same. Honda made and exported lawn mowers (very few Japanese have grass to cut) and boat motors (maybe 1 out of 300 people in Japan drive a car; much much fewer own a boat). I can remember as a kid when anything made in Japan was considered junk. It just goes to show that the most rapid and profitable way to success is to lose a war with the US....like Germany and Japan. Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan just weren't paying attention.
Japan's automotive success from the 70's onward has a lot to do with their culture. At a time when American car workers were more interested in getting high, drunk, grabbing the nearest pussy, etc., the Japanese were out to make the best possible product given their design and material constraints. And the Japanese view of the business was that it was a type of war to be won.
And not just the workers. It was top down: Americans only want big cars, seat belts will put the cost of autos too high for the average person, no one wants safety over style, the same ol blah blah from any situation where they are or believe they are above competition.
They WERE above competition for decades. That's what made them gradually lose their market share. Along with the fact that virtually every other industrialized country in the world has excellent and universally accessible mass transit except the US makes having a car damn near a necessity in this country, so Detroit basically had a captive market. Before you can buy a car in Japan you have to prove to the state that you have a place to park it; on your property. I knew a Japanese guy who owned a bar near the Yokosuka naval station; he got himself a 1977 Trans Am. Before he could take possession of it after it was imported, the authorities virtually took it apart to inspect it for quality and safety. He paid about three times what the car sold for at a Pontiac dealer. About $21,000 if I remember correctly.
The Pennsylvania pizzeria owner is a couple of slices short of a full pie.
Idk what make of car she drives.
Probably a Hummer or an old Buick Roadblaster.
More likely she drives the same piece of crap that Walter White drove in Breaking Bad: one of the ugliest things to come out of Detroit: The Pontiac Aztek (I apologize to anybody here who has one).
I'll stick with the Buick Roadblaster station wagon with all options...I just suspect that's what it'll be. You can get a lot of dynamite in a Roadblaster wagon.
I think it's a reasonable sentence, in exchange for a guilty plea and saying "that was a stupid thing to do" in public.
Especially since they did not catch him engaging in any physical violence or property destruction (though "carrying a Trump campaign flag" should be a separate crime ). They may go harsher with others, much harsher with some.
I love the smell of (fill in the blank) in the morning....it smells like......victory.
The Pennsylvania pizzeria owner is a couple of slices short of a full pie.
). They may go harsher with others, much harsher with some.