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jhaydeno previously said:
Gasco, although we agree on a good bit, I've got to disagree with your global emissions comment. The last two global emissions comittees (both of which I'm very familiar with having a refrigerant based job) both gave developing countries substantial breaks. China and India both fit that catagory and have since taken great advantage of their emissions advantage. I wouldn't put it past either one to continue to push todays technology well past its prime for their own gain as long as they are allowed to do so by the international community, and current trends and recent proticol will allow it for quite a while!
Edit - I forgot to mention the Indian industrialist had great taste in cars!! I saw this one for sale in Argentina two years ago:
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Nice avatar, by the way.
You may be right, and they may not care. Judging from the number of
new Jags I see on the roads here in the Northeast (versus MBZ and BMW
to say nothing of the Japanese luxury brands), their market may well have
dried up. You'd think that the X-type should be giving AUDI and the AWD
BMW and MBZs a run for their money, but you rarely see them. They came
out with a wagon last year--- I've yet to see one on the road in Bucks
County.
Jag doesn't seem to be winning over anybody new--- the Jag aficionados
may be buying them, but all efforts to open new markets seem to fail.
FIAT and MG didn't stop coming to the US because they didn't want to
sell here. They stopped because nobody wanted what was on offer from
them. That was kind of understandable.
I admit I don't quite get it with Jag. I have never been fond of the XJ-
and beyond bigger cars...I babysat an E-Type for a year and loved it.
Before I bought my first AUDI A4, I drove an X-Type on a snowy
evening. I liked it, I admit. But couldn't get
quite as comfy in
it. At the time there was only the sedan, and I wanted a 'hatchback.'
Those two factors put me in the A4 Avant (wagon) which is a '4-door
hatchback.'
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