It's interesting to reflect on how things change. It doesn't seem that long ago that Japanese products were considered junk (perhaps before your time). And they were. Cheap knock-offs. But much more affordable than European imports. Now they have become the world leaders in quality (partly thanks to Americans, Deming & Juran). //Jack On 19 Dec 2002, at 20:16, Andrew Grebneff wrote: > >Perhaps the Europeans send their crappy cars to New Zealand since we don't > >have the same issues here. > > Perhaps people have different expectations? Here people are used to > mainly Japanese fare, and the Europeans aren't proving up to it. |
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