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Originally Posted by jd10013
pretty spot on, but you over simplify a bit as the US car companies weren't just helpless victims. they brought about a good bit of their own problems by not building what people wanted and letting costs explode out of control during the good times.
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I remember this quite clearly. We could get a hell of a lot of niceties and tech in cars and trucks from Japan while the US domestics just never got a clue to what the American buyer sentiment was. I remember looking at a C4 Corvette and how sexy it seemed until I got into the thing and was just grossed out by the fact it has such a crappy plastic interior and was only available in an automatic. I went across the street and jumped into a Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 and I was hooked... AWD twin turbo with digital.