Thread: Why do North American journalists ignore Nokia and Maemo?
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colnago is offline colnago
2010-01-15 , 22:11
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Originally Posted by DaveP1 View Post
...BTW, America, as a whole, gets cars. However America prefers Japanese cars that work to European cars that don't. And I speak as one who has owned two Fiats (Fix It Again, Tony), two Alfas, currently drives a BMW, and is waiting with baited breath for Fiat to reenter the American market so I can get the (rumored to be coming to America) Fiat 500 Abarth or Alfa Brera.
Fair enough...my problem is that Fiat, Alfa, Seat, Vauxhaul, Peugeot, etc, etc, etc, aren't even available to make that "irrational choice" (let me find a running light blue early 90's Fiat Spyder 2000 and see if it takes more than 2 seconds to buy it ), let alone most of America not even knowing those cars exist.

We may have a lot of "luxury cars per capita", but where is the BMW M1? CLK Black (actually may get 1-2 by those in the know)? Ford has a Rally Car...for the past 2-3 decades? Scirocco, they stopped making that years ago? Nissan has a new car called a GTR...what, its been out for years? Etc., etc...