Honda "Clumsy" When Flirting With Foreigners, Wants To Get More Open

[sjmmail...@yahoo.co.uk]

With all the tie-ups going on between Japanese and mostly European car makers, conventional wisdom had it that Honda would not take part in the nampa with the gaijin. Everybody saw them stay pure and Nipponese. Not so, said Executive Vice President Koichi Kondo yesterday to The Nikkei [sub]. They would very much like a [...]
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<sjmmail...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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That vice president has a pretty naff memory then. My father had a Triumph
Acclaim which was almost identical to the Honda concerto and even had a
Honda engine. That was in the early 80's when Honda spent a lot of time in
bed with the old British Leyland group. It very nearly became a full
blown merger but fell to pices at the last knockings.
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Tinkerer