[lbo-talk] germany-builds-twice-as-many-cars-as-the-u-s-while-paying-its-auto-workers-twice-as-much/ ?

[Wojtek S]

Stereotypes, I suppose.  Here is an interesting piece on car
stereotypes in China.  Audi is the brand to have since this is what
government functionaries have.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/business/global/in-china-car-brands-evoke-an-unexpected-set-of-stereotypes.html?pagewanted=all

Wojtek

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Miles Jackson
<milesvjackson at comcast.net> wrote:
> W. Kiernan wrote:
>
>> Also they don't charge twice as much for their cars in Europe.  MB and
>> BMW sell top-of-the-line models with only their biggest engines and
>> lots of high-end options at top dollar the USA, so we think of them as
>> being costly luxury cars, but in Europe you see MBs and BMWs as police
>> cars, company fleet cars and taxis.
>
> Interesting.  I wondered how the German car compaies sold more cars as the
> big 3.
> Miles
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