Sentences with phrase «japanese domestic car»

Toyota did well because the Japanese domestic car market demands small, efficient cars, and that demand has expanded as we approach Peak Oil.

Not exact matches

I mean sure if you lease, the well BMW is for you, but if you want to own a car that works correctly, then just go Japanese, or dare I say it Ford, yeah I never thought I'd ever think a domestic car was worth owning, but you know what, it's not a VW, how bad can it be?

Sequestered to the Japanese domestic market for its first five generations, the GT - R evolved from something of a three - quarter - scale muscle car to a singular technological tour de force.

Nissan admits to the problem of selling Japanese - built cars outside its homeland, but struggles with an official goal of maintaining domestic production of at one million units annually.

As more and more Japanese Domestic Market cars turn 25 years old, import companies have made a killing from bringing these JDM gems legally into the states.

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The all - new minivan is aimed right at families who prefer high - quality Japanese cars but need the practicality, versatility and roominess of domestic minivans, like the market leaders from the Chrysler Corp..

Sure, they released the three - door hatch - based Civic Type - R in Europe, but it simply wasn't the car the Japanese domestic version was.

Production for the Japanese domestic market finally ceased in 2000, with the last two cars sold the following year.

In the 1970s and 1980s, many Japanese performance cars were never exported outside the Japanese domestic market.

Credited with helping open up the American market for Japanese autos, the «reliable» Accord was once the bestselling car in the U.S. before it began losing ground first to Japanese rivals and more recently to resurgent domestic automakers and South Korean upstarts.

The car was successful in its domestic market, but international audiences didn't perceive it as serious competition against the European and Japanese luxury sedans that Hyundai intended to compete against.

Unlike buyers of American and Japanese passenger cars, compact truck buyers tend to cross-shop domestic and foreign makes, especially Toyota vs. Ranger, Bergsteinsson said.

[199] While earlier Lexus models were criticized for reserved and derivative styling, and often mistaken for understated domestic market cars, [198] automotive design analyses described L - finesse as adding a distinctive nature and embrace of Japanese design identity.

After the release of the Lexus brand in the Japanese domestic market in 2005, Lexus sanctioned the entry of four SC 430 coupes in the Super GT series of the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship in the GT500 class.

By 2006, in the domestic Japanese market, this car was sold as Toyota Celsior.

Among domestics, the Cadillac Seville STS sedan is equally luxurious, and with its V - 8 engine, Seville is considerably quicker than the Japanese luxury cars.

Although Cedegren believes Ford and Chrysler will have an extremely tough job converting owners of Accords and Camrys to American iron, price differences between American and Japanese cars should steer some buyers back to domestic autos.

In the past 16 years, domestic automakers have won North American Car of the Year eight times, Japanese automakers three times, European automakers four times.