Doesn't fly... far more Japanese cars than European cars in the USA.

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Andrew Grebneff
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:16 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Mercedes 5cyl 300TD in vanagon?

>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.