On 29 Jan 05  08:15:48, Tom Walker got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Hardware MB question

 -> That I know.  But, take a look at their response time when people 
 -> wanted "muscle" cars again.  They beat the US competion by at 
 -> least a full year.  

 TW> Well that is for many years the Japanese have been DEEP into "Hot
 TW> Rodding"(Using a term forn MY genration. you would be amaised the
 TW> Parts they have not legal for importation into the US. And also for

No I wouldn't!   

 TW> many years they have built Showroom cars that were not importable that
 TW> have very respectable ET's and 1/4 mile times. And some of their
 TW> somewhat small dis[placement cars set up for the Drag Strip can
 TW> embarras the so called Muscle Cars. Of cpourse theri engiens don't last
 TW> as long but what counts is WHO reaches the end of the strip First.  :-)

That is the true bottom line, expensive as it may be.  

 TW> As for the "Hot" they quickly sent to our market an nthe
development
 TW> was already done.
 TW> All they had to do was Tweek some of those parts a little and meet out
 TW> laws for import.
 
Still, demonstrating that they could be more diverse in a shorter 
period of time.  

 
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