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Say buon giorno to the Asus Lamborghini VX2 {Engadget}
Jan 30th 2007 6:25PM Nice laptop!!!
LG BH100 HD DVD / Blu-ray hybrid player reviewed {Engadget}
Jan 30th 2007 4:28PM I like it! I'd buy it...
Toyota poised to build plant number eight in US {Autoblog}
Jan 10th 2007 7:21PM #14, Che, if you drive an Audi, you have no right to defend for American cars. If yourself don't even drive the car you're trying to defend, then how do you know what others felt after they bought a lemon?! (I assume you don't have a 1998ish A4, otherwise you'd pissed by Audi. VW used bad regulator for their windows, and they were sued in a class-action file.)
Whether it's Toyota or GM, each company have feature products to attract buyers. But if Toyota is growing share, the statistic proofs that they are on the right path to meet consumers' needs. We keep arguing about reliability and "soul", but there are much more to consider when a person chooses cars - exterior, interior, quality, reliability, fuel consumption, financial terms, etc. I agree that SOME domestic cars have good qualities (my family owns a GM car, and we had little issue with it. Reliable and comfortable. On the other hand, Ford Taurus is totally Junk.), but someone will walk away form them due to fuel economy and cheap interior. Your proof of using that Detroit News is totally biased and unfair. Maintenance costs includes parts, and domestic OEMs have much broader range of suppliers and after-market small companies to make accessories that the whole echo system reduces the cost, where as Japanese parts came from Japan or factories with smaller production capacities, thus the higher cost. However, many consumers agree that they do not have to repair/fix their Japanese vehicles as often as their American cars. So the "higher" costs on parts balance out.
The key is that all cars are PRODUCTS. The execution of design and manufacturing a product that meets your targeted customers' needs is the key. The bigger pictures show that Japanese Auto Makers are doing a good job on this in the last several years. So you must be the
Luxpro wins Apple copycat suit, proceeds to copy again by countersuing {Engadget}
Jan 5th 2007 6:22PM You don't even know what "communist" is. The court ruling was in Taiwan. The Taiwanese do not have a communist based government.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so: Majority of Californians buy Japanese cars in 2006 {Autoblog}
Jan 2nd 2007 4:12PM "I am not really surprised.. Every third person you meet on the streets of L.A. or any other major city
in California is YELLOW MONKEY!!!! So what do you expect..."
schultz, what are you - White Trash?
Chinese manufacturers prepared to switch from DVD to EVD in '08 {Engadget}
Dec 6th 2006 7:12PM You obviously don't know what the world looks like in now days.
Officially Official: 2007 Honda CR-V {Autoblog}
Sep 1st 2006 3:49PM This is one ugly car/SUV, especially the front...bad bad bad move for Honda. The new Toyota RAV-4 is much better.
What we all need: tie-pod {Weblogs, Inc.}
Feb 23rd 2006 7:39PM I'm surprised they didn't call it "iTie". Now days, pretty much everything that has anything to do with Apple's product (or not even so) starts with an "i".
