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2024-02-05 Economy

If you want to know where the world economy is headed, look at the bottom of this toy car

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-05 03:21|| || Front Page|| [21 views ] Top

#1 You would think by now the enviros would be trying to ban toy cars as being just as awful as toy guns in terms of what they teach children to accept as normal.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-05 06:46|| 2024-02-05 06:46|| Front Page Top

#2 When I was a kid in the 1950s we had a neighbor who owned a small toy store. Every once in a while he'd give us a toy cars. They were stamped Made in Japan even then.

Posted by EMSArtifact 2024-02-05 10:01|| 2024-02-05 10:01|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ You of course remember the airplanes in the breakfast cereal boxes.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-05 10:05|| 2024-02-05 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 The whole question of 'what is an import' has become a major problem over the past 30 years.

Many autos, SUVs and light trucks, have final assembly in Alabama, at plants owned by Mercedes Benz, Honda, Hundai and Toyota. Some of the engines come from the engine assembly plant in Huntsville, Al but others come from Mexico and Canada. Other parts come from East Asia and Germany for example.

Posted by lord garth 2024-02-05 10:50|| 2024-02-05 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 As a young lad in the 60's, Matchbox cars were UK-made, Hot Wheels were US, baby!

Posted by Frank G 2024-02-05 11:24|| 2024-02-05 11:24|| Front Page Top

#6 I remember when Made in Japan was translated as Inferior Quality.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-02-05 12:16|| 2024-02-05 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 After WWII, Japanese used beer cans to make toys for export to the United States. Desperate for income, they used anything they could get their hands on to make anything they could imagine that might sell. In those days we thought if it was Made in Japan it was cheap and trashy. But after the Japanese recovered from the war they showed the world how real cars should be made. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler were never the same after that.

Posted by Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) 2024-02-05 13:17|| 2024-02-05 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 But then, American computer companies have never been the same since we started importing computers from China.

Posted by Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) 2024-02-05 13:20|| 2024-02-05 13:20|| Front Page Top

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