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...American imports. During Bush's visit, Japanese auto companies promised to double their purchase of American auto parts to $19 billion by 1994. But they are reluctant to extend assistance to U.S. makers trying to sell American cars. "The Americans themselves have done little to penetrate our market," says Nissan president Yutaka Kume. "They must try harder." Beyond that, Kume would not mind if Americans like Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, whose comments about Japanese honesty and fairness Kume calls "outrageous and insulting," would cease their verbal assaults and get on with selling cars...
...Japanese car.' It was kind of a laugher. But at the same time, I got the message. He happens to be a Ford Motor Co. engineer." Reynolds says when he heard Sakurauchi insult American workers, "I decided to do something." Reynolds canceled an order for a Nissan company car. He ordered a Ford Escort instead. His next step will be to sell the Infiniti and buy a Lincoln Mark...
...confusion, many products with Japanese names are actually made in America. According to The New York Times, nearly 40 percent of Honda, Toyota and Nissan cars are assembled inside the United States, in American factories, by American workers. Are the 4,850 American jobs at the $1.2 billion Nissan plant in Sparta, Tennessee, worth less than jobs of General Motors workers in Detroit...
...nation, companies are offering incentives to workers who buy American cars. Monsanto, for example, will pay $1,000 to every one of its 12,000 workers who buys a car made in North America (or in one of Japan's American factories, such as Honda's Ohio plant or Nissan's Tennessee plant...
...Iacocca declared last week that his company would redesign some of its models for the Japanese market and be ready to sell them later this year. Then there is the question of quality -- something the Japanese are usually too polite to mention in public. During last week's talks, Nissan president Yutaka Kume brushed aside the suggestion that he and his colleagues had agreed to buy American auto parts out of "charity." That, said Kume, "would be too arrogant." But privately a Nissan official conceded that the buying plan was "an act of goodwill...