It's interesting to reflect on how things change.  It doesn't seem that
long ago that Japanese products were considered junk (perhaps before your
time).  And they were.  Cheap knock-offs.  But much more affordable than
European imports.  Now they have become the world leaders in quality
(partly thanks to Americans, Deming & Juran).  //Jack

On 19 Dec 2002, at 20:16, Andrew Grebneff wrote:

> >Perhaps the Europeans send their crappy cars to New Zealand since we don't
> >have the same issues here.
>
> Perhaps people have different expectations? Here people are used to
> mainly Japanese fare, and the Europeans aren't proving up to it.