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Another little tail about why US car makers fail.
Years ago president Ray-Gun was visiting Japan. At the prompting of the US motor lobby he got up in public and complained about Japanese protectionism which resulted in no US cars being sold in Japan. The Japanese prime minister responded that there was no restriction on the importing of US cars to Japan and that the problem was that no US makers made right-hand-drive versions of their vehicles. The observant US president had already been in Japan a few days but had not noticed that they drive on the left.
Following on from that, later on the Japanese PM told Reagen that the reason US manufacturing could not compete with Japan was that Japan is racially pure whereas the US is a racial mixture. The uproar in Japan was such that he had to resign. (And who says there is never any justice in this world - it is just not too common.)
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