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    • Sun Mar 2nd 13:30 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Chevrolet's Malibu Sets New Record for Mid-Size Car
      You make a point, magnacarta. Many of the Japanese manufacturers, and now even the Korean manufacturers do assemble their vehicles in the United States. However, they are still made from foreign components. In most all Japanese cars, it's difficult to find a transmission that is not made in Japan. Honda imports many of their auto parts. I invite you to visit www.hondatrading.com/ to see for yourself.
      Even if some of the components in the vehicles are manufactured in the United States (air bags, etc.), the corporations that manufacture these components for the Japanese Automakers are Japanese Companies as well. Aisin, for example, is the main parts supplier to Toyota. Regardless of where these cars or components are being made, the money is still finding it's way back to Japan, and His Majesty the Emperor Akihito. The only money that stays here is the money that goes into the workers' pockets- which is great; don't get me wrong. Still, none of that money is being invested in American infrastructure nor is any money going into American Research & Development. I believe it was the Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper) that had a quote in it stating that, "America is the Japanese automakers' cash-cow." We serve as their primary research entity, and they then continue to develop and redesign products from the money we give them.
      The only incentives the Japanese Automakers have to produce vehicles in the United States are those that we offer them. Mid-western and Southern states have now formed a symbiotic relationship with the Japanese by offering them years and years of tax abatements to come to their state and build an auto plant. The states create jobs, and the Japanese can save money by using non-union workers and by being able to deliver the vehicles to dealers over a much shorter distance. Most recently Hyundai took advantage of this proposition in Alabama, and Kumho tires did the same in Georgia.
      Granted, your cars may have lasted a long time, but please don't try to make it seem as if they are not foreign because they are. The more money that Americans spend on foreign cars, the less money that goes into American R&D for American Companies. Things can't get better without R&D-- Japanese cars are a prime example of that. But this is America, and we are free to buy what we want. It would be silly of us to implement laws like those in the EU, Japan and Korea which work to aid the selling national goods over foreign or imported items. Wouldn't it?
      Arigato gozaimasu for your time.
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    • Fri Feb 29th 16:39 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Chevrolet's Malibu Sets New Record for Mid-Size Car
      User 158164, you are my hero. I like the way you talk.
      Alpha Seeker, what a risible comment. Apple is cool in their own American way. Even the Japanese can't get enough of Apple. So give GM a chance to be cool too.
      Remember, Americans are the inventors of everything the Japanese have built upon. They're a society of re-engineering engineers-- which is a good thing; it's creative, but not groundbreaking.
      Why would you do what the republicans want you to do? Gee, let's support the expansion of free trade and the integration of foreign markets into our economy. Sounds like a plan. So... where's my free health care? Japan doesn't seem to have a problem with that.
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