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   Wise TibetanMonkey, Humble Philosop to Ashton Crusher   
   Re: Is America up to European standards?   
   01 May 14 20:04:19   
   
   From: thetibetanmonkey@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:30:51 PM UTC-4, Ashton Crusher wrote:   
   > On Thu, 01 May 2014 14:31:45 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."   
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   > >Ashton Crusher wrote:   
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   > >> Since there are plenty of imports, how do you figure the US auto   
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   > >> dealers have the market all to themselves?   
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   > >Because they still have to sell through a dealer. Tesla is trying to change   
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   > >that but running into stiff resistance.   
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   > The original claim was DEALERS.  Are you now trying to change that to   
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   > MAKERS?   
      
   Meet GM Europe (aka Opel/Vauxhall), a fine family of fun cars, not available   
   in the States. Instead they import Korean designs which are also fine and fun.   
   The Sonic is truly great in turbo model.   
      
   Here's the European family:   
      
   http://www.opel.com/vehicles/index.html   
      
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   Ford is scoring big with the Festiva/Fiesta fun cars. Hey we want options. Why   
   not open the markets? Ukraine probably will be opening too. How about Russia?   
   I'm afraid we lost Russia this time. What is Europe doing with those unsold   
   cars?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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