Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Jananese Inventiveness...are you sure?
From: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@ans.com.au>
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 06:18:22 +0000
 
Bill Erfurth wrote:

> I have just returned from my local Mercedes dealer.  I took your
> advice and went there to look for significant Japanese parts on a new
> Mercedes 320.  I couldn't find any.  So I ask the sales manager what
> significant Japanese parts were used in the manufacture of Mercedes
> automobiles.  He gave me a very strange look and told me to come back
> when I was feeling better.

Australia exports several parts which are used to build the
Mercedes 300 series.  It doesn't seem improbable that there are
some Japanese parts there too, no matter what the sales guy says.