On 25 Jan 05  07:55:00, Tom Walker got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Hardware MB question

 -> That's one of the reasons that the Japanese car companies ate 
 -> Detroit's lunch during the "Gas crisis" of the 70's.   

 TW> Well the "Detroit Mentality" helped a bit. The thought in that day
 TW> was that NO body is really interested in those "Little
Cars" and they
 TW> pushed the sales of the Big Gas Hogs becasue they made more money per
 TW> unit on them.

The other thing was that the Japanese used US technology to market 
the "correct" car 2 years earlier than the US could re-tool and 
bring it to market.  


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