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Old 06-26-2012, 08:29 PM   #102 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Vman455 View Post
Because the Japanese are all building big, bigger, and even bigger cars? When it first came here, the Honda Accord was 171.9" long, 63.8" wide, 53.3" high. Today, the Accord is 194.9" long, 72.7" wide, and 58.1" high.
Sure, but you do know that Honda still makes & sells cars smaller than the Accord, don't you? Honda (and other imports) got their foothold in the US market by serving the small car segment that the US automakers were ignoring. That might be - at a guess - 25% of the total market. Once the imports saturated that segment (and were competing amongst themselves for shares of it), they could gain more sales by building larger models as well. That didn't mean that the small car segment went away: it meant that they were taking a share of the mid-size market segment away from Detroit.
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